Enhancing Students’ Achievement and Career Success: The Role of Students Engagement in Higher Education
- November 19, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Education, IJRISS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue XI, November 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186
Emma Darkoa Aikins
College of Technology Education, Kumasi- University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Abstract: – Studies have shown that effective engagement of higher education students leads to outstanding achievement and career success. From available literature, engagement has been studied from the emotional, behavioural and cognitive dimensions with little attention to students’ engagement with industry through higher education faculties. This article sheds light on the relationship between and among the three dimensions of engagement and how they can be evoked by industrial engagement as the chief driver of students’ achievement. To promote students’ achievement and career success, university faculties are considered the nerve centre in the formulation and operationalisation of student engagement services through active engagement with appropriate industries, involvement of students in programme enrichment and above all, acknowledgement of students’ as partners and bona fide members of a learning community. All of that are considered as incentives for students’ behavioural compliance.
Keywords: Achievement, Career Success Engagement, Higher Education
I. INTRODUCTION
Among the objectives of higher educational institutions is to engage students in relevant learning activities that enhance capacity for development and growth in their chosen career. Studies conducted in countries like the United States of America (Kuh, Kinzie, Schuh, & Whitt, 2005), Australia (Krause & Coates, 2008), New Zealand (Van der Meer & Scott, 2009), England (Mann, 2001) and Turkey (Gunuc, 2014) have shown a positive correlation between students engagement and learning outcomes. In Africa, available literature shows that Nigeria and South Africa have documented studies which correlate learning outcomes to student engagement (Abubakar, Abubakar & Itse, 2017).
