Yalalem Assefa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3052136 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Yalalem Assefa |
| NOMBRES | Yalalem |
| APELLIDO | Assefa |
| FIRMA | ASSEFA Y |
| AFILIACIONES | Woldia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6175-0161 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Organizational Justice in Higher Education
Justice is an important factor in organizational performance, including in higher education institutions. This study examines how faculty perceive and experience issues of organizational justice across distributive, procedural, and interactional dimensions as practiced by their immediate leaders, such as department heads and college deans. In doing that, the study used a case study design and involved 48 purposively selected participants. Data we…
Rethinking adult education in Ethiopia
Bridging the gaps
Students in pastoral areas encounter a range of e ducational challenges, including engagement and retention issues, geographic isolation, inadequate infrastru cture a nd educational resources, lack of culturally sensitive curricula, and sociocultural barriers. Ad dressing these challenges is crucial for enhancing stu dent learning outcomes in these areas. This study w as conducted to ide ntify and propose relevant educational approaches t hat hel…
Unpacking student engagement and its mediating role in predicting the relationship between self-determination and academic satisfaction among undergraduate students in higher education
Student academic satisfaction, engagement, and self-determination are increasingly being considered in higher education research, as they are crucial concepts for understanding student achievement and well-being. However, exploring how these constructs interact with each other remains underexplored. Hence, this study explores how undergradute students' perception of self-determination relates to their engagement and academic satisfaction in highe…
The influence of teacher leadership on student self-determination in higher education
The importance of teacher leadership in enhancing student learning outcomes, including the fundamental components of self-determination: autonomy, competence, and relatedness, is increasingly recognised. Nonetheless, contextual elements affect the effectiveness of teacher leadership in enhancing student self-determination, yet remain little examined in the higher education context. Addressing this, the present study aims to investigate the influe…
It is all about an appealing environment
Student engagement and the learning environment have gained momentum within the educational research space as valid factors in determining the quality of education. However, empirical evidence on the relationships between the learning environment and student engagement remains scant in the context of higher education in Ethiopia. This article examined the association between student perception of the learning environment and student engagement (a…
Revitalising a student-centred leadership
Purpose In recent years, the study of various forms of teacher leadership styles and behaviours, and student engagement has gained increasing attention because these constructs are critical for understanding student success and well-being. However, investigation of how these constructs interact to shape students' learning, particularly in the Ethiopian higher education contexts, remains underexplored. Addressing the gap, the present study examine…
Indigenous knowledge systems and practices in North Wollo, Ethiopia
From Learning to Leading
Fuel to the fire
The inclusion of indigenous knowledge into adult education programs
In this age of information exchange, where nations’ multiculturalism is prominent, developing a positive attitude towards local people’s knowledge and wisdom regardless of gender, faith, age, and other social class is prominent. This is because countries need to have a diverse population that embraces diverse indigenous knowledge systems and practices to be successful in their overall development activities. Indigenous knowledge is the basis of a…
The psychometric properties of the lifelong learning measurement scale (LLMS)
In the dynamic world of higher education, lifelong learning is important to both individuals and institutions, and measuring it can provide insightful data for both. The purpose of this study is therefore to refine and validate the psychometric qualities of the Lifelong Learning Measurement Scale (LLMS), created to measure academic staff's engagement with lifelong learning in higher education institutions. Using a cross-sectional study design, th…
Assessment of Ethiopian Integrated Functional Adult Education (Ifae) planning practice
The study's main purpose is to evaluate the planning practices of the Ethiopian Integrated Functional Adult Education (IFAE) programme and to draw lessons that can be learned for future adult education programmes. The study used an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design and involved 224 participants. Data were collected using questionnaires and interviews and analysed by descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. The study found …
The mediating role of lifelong learning in the structural relationship between workplace environment and staff engagement in higher education
When considering staff engagement in higher education, scrutinizing the issues of nurturing a healthy workplace environment as well as valuing lifelong learning and professional development opportunities cannot be overstated to enhance both personal and institutional effectiveness. In this sprite, the main objective of this study is located to estimate the mediating role/effect of staff involvement in lifelong learning on the structural relations…
Promoting facilitators’ career development and workplace engagement
The quality of adult learning depends on the professionalisation of individuals who are involved in the adult education programs provision. The delivery of adult education programs is mainly supported by facilitators. Increasing the amount of time and effort put into developing and acknowledging their contributions can aid in motivating and extending the duration of their work as program facilitators. Hence, promoting the professional profile of …
Students’ and Teachers’ Perception and Practice towards Laboratory Work in Chemistry Teaching-Learning
One of the inputs for a high-quality education is using laboratory activities which are characteristic features of science teaching at all levels of education. Consequently, this study was carried out to investigate the perception and practice centered on assessing the practice of laboratory work and identifying the factors that affect its implementation. To achieve these objectives, data were collected from secondary school students and teachers…
Challenges of Learning Postgraduate Class with No Prior Work Experience
The main purpose of this research was to explore the lived experience of students who learn postgraduate classes without having prior work experience. To achieve the intended objective, the team of researchers used a qualitative research approach. The phenomenological research design was used to have the real lived experience of novice scholarship students. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus group discussion, and unstructured …
Indigenous-Based Adult Education Learning Material Development
Indigenous perspectives hold promising opportunities for education and practice. It is possible to entertain indigenous knowledge into adult education through modelling, guided practice, and application approaches. However, there are several limiting factors to do so. Today, many indigenous knowledge systems and practices are at risk of becoming extinct because of rapidly changing natural environments and fast pacing economic, political, and cult…
Exploring "Intersectoral Collaboration" towards the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Adult Education Programs in North Wollo, Ethiopia
Integration of indigenous knowledge into adult education recognizes collaboration based on indigenous frameworks and methodologies and gives more attention to people's history, politics, cultural beliefs, and philosophical views. The most important beginning phases and tasks in promoting indigenous-based learning are establishing a responsive organizational structure that helps to identify and agree on what roles and responsibilities are played b…
Cultural Familiarity, Foreign Language Speaking Skill, and Foreign Language Anxiety
Since cultural aspects of language learning are not incorporated in some EFL materials and textbooks, this study can be important to investigate the impacts of using cultural-based instruction on developing the speaking skill of Indonesian EFL learners. In addition, this research tried to examine the effects of using cultural-based instruction on foreign language anxiety of Indonesian EFL learners. To reach these aims, the Oxford Quick Placement …
Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Adult Learning Material Development and the Facilitation Methodology
Connecting indigenous knowledge systems and practices with adult education programs has priceless value of promoting and transferring indigenous perspectives from generation to generation. Indeed, education is the surest path to ensuring social continuity when it ought to be based on the real-life experiences of learners and what their immediate environment and social realities entail. This demands the development of relevant adult learning mater…
Towards Learner-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation in Adult Education Program
Monitoring and evaluation practice of adult education by its flexible nature highly needs effective and continuous professional support based on a bureaucratic system that accomplishes expectations using a hierarchical arrangement. The central essence of adult education monitoring is conceptualized as the continuous comparison of implementation progress against the predetermined principles. As well, another common vital task is evaluation. Such p…
Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Adult Learning Material Development and the Facilitation Methodology
Connecting indigenous knowledge systems and practices with adult education programs has priceless value of promoting and transferring indigenous perspectives from generation to generation. Indeed, education is the surest path to ensuring social continuity when it ought to be based on the real-life experiences of learners and what their immediate environment and social realities entail. This demands the development of relevant adult learning mater…
Towards Learner-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation in Adult Education Program
Monitoring and evaluation practice of adult education by its flexible nature highly needs effective and continuous professional support based on a bureaucratic system that accomplishes expectations using a hierarchical arrangement. The central essence of adult education monitoring is conceptualized as the continuous comparison of implementation progress against the predetermined principles. As well, another common vital task is evaluation. Such p…
Exploring "Intersectoral Collaboration" towards the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Adult Education Programs in North Wollo, Ethiopia
Integration of indigenous knowledge into adult education recognizes collaboration based on indigenous frameworks and methodologies and gives more attention to people's history, politics, cultural beliefs, and philosophical views. The most important beginning phases and tasks in promoting indigenous-based learning are establishing a responsive organizational structure that helps to identify and agree on what roles and responsibilities are played b…
The psychometric properties of the lifelong learning measurement scale (LLMS)
In the dynamic world of higher education, lifelong learning is important to both individuals and institutions, and measuring it can provide insightful data for both. The purpose of this study is therefore to refine and validate the psychometric qualities of the Lifelong Learning Measurement Scale (LLMS), created to measure academic staff's engagement with lifelong learning in higher education institutions. Using a cross-sectional study design, th…
Cultural Familiarity, Foreign Language Speaking Skill, and Foreign Language Anxiety
Since cultural aspects of language learning are not incorporated in some EFL materials and textbooks, this study can be important to investigate the impacts of using cultural-based instruction on developing the speaking skill of Indonesian EFL learners. In addition, this research tried to examine the effects of using cultural-based instruction on foreign language anxiety of Indonesian EFL learners. To reach these aims, the Oxford Quick Placement …
Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Adult Learning Material Development and the Facilitation Methodology
Connecting indigenous knowledge systems and practices with adult education programs has priceless value of promoting and transferring indigenous perspectives from generation to generation. Indeed, education is the surest path to ensuring social continuity when it ought to be based on the real-life experiences of learners and what their immediate environment and social realities entail. This demands the development of relevant adult learning mater…
Towards Learner-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation in Adult Education Program
Monitoring and evaluation practice of adult education by its flexible nature highly needs effective and continuous professional support based on a bureaucratic system that accomplishes expectations using a hierarchical arrangement. The central essence of adult education monitoring is conceptualized as the continuous comparison of implementation progress against the predetermined principles. As well, another common vital task is evaluation. Such p…
Students’ and Teachers’ Perception and Practice towards Laboratory Work in Chemistry Teaching-Learning
One of the inputs for a high-quality education is using laboratory activities which are characteristic features of science teaching at all levels of education. Consequently, this study was carried out to investigate the perception and practice centered on assessing the practice of laboratory work and identifying the factors that affect its implementation. To achieve these objectives, data were collected from secondary school students and teachers…
Challenges of Learning Postgraduate Class with No Prior Work Experience
The main purpose of this research was to explore the lived experience of students who learn postgraduate classes without having prior work experience. To achieve the intended objective, the team of researchers used a qualitative research approach. The phenomenological research design was used to have the real lived experience of novice scholarship students. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus group discussion, and unstructured …
Indigenous-Based Adult Education Learning Material Development
Indigenous perspectives hold promising opportunities for education and practice. It is possible to entertain indigenous knowledge into adult education through modelling, guided practice, and application approaches. However, there are several limiting factors to do so. Today, many indigenous knowledge systems and practices are at risk of becoming extinct because of rapidly changing natural environments and fast pacing economic, political, and cult…
Exploring "Intersectoral Collaboration" towards the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge into Adult Education Programs in North Wollo, Ethiopia
Integration of indigenous knowledge into adult education recognizes collaboration based on indigenous frameworks and methodologies and gives more attention to people's history, politics, cultural beliefs, and philosophical views. The most important beginning phases and tasks in promoting indigenous-based learning are establishing a responsive organizational structure that helps to identify and agree on what roles and responsibilities are played b…
Cultural Familiarity, Foreign Language Speaking Skill, and Foreign Language Anxiety
Since cultural aspects of language learning are not incorporated in some EFL materials and textbooks, this study can be important to investigate the impacts of using cultural-based instruction on developing the speaking skill of Indonesian EFL learners. In addition, this research tried to examine the effects of using cultural-based instruction on foreign language anxiety of Indonesian EFL learners. To reach these aims, the Oxford Quick Placement …
The mediating role of lifelong learning in the structural relationship between workplace environment and staff engagement in higher education
When considering staff engagement in higher education, scrutinizing the issues of nurturing a healthy workplace environment as well as valuing lifelong learning and professional development opportunities cannot be overstated to enhance both personal and institutional effectiveness. In this sprite, the main objective of this study is located to estimate the mediating role/effect of staff involvement in lifelong learning on the structural relations…
Promoting facilitators’ career development and workplace engagement
The quality of adult learning depends on the professionalisation of individuals who are involved in the adult education programs provision. The delivery of adult education programs is mainly supported by facilitators. Increasing the amount of time and effort put into developing and acknowledging their contributions can aid in motivating and extending the duration of their work as program facilitators. Hence, promoting the professional profile of …
Fuel to the fire
The inclusion of indigenous knowledge into adult education programs
In this age of information exchange, where nations’ multiculturalism is prominent, developing a positive attitude towards local people’s knowledge and wisdom regardless of gender, faith, age, and other social class is prominent. This is because countries need to have a diverse population that embraces diverse indigenous knowledge systems and practices to be successful in their overall development activities. Indigenous knowledge is the basis of a…
The psychometric properties of the lifelong learning measurement scale (LLMS)
In the dynamic world of higher education, lifelong learning is important to both individuals and institutions, and measuring it can provide insightful data for both. The purpose of this study is therefore to refine and validate the psychometric qualities of the Lifelong Learning Measurement Scale (LLMS), created to measure academic staff's engagement with lifelong learning in higher education institutions. Using a cross-sectional study design, th…
Assessment of Ethiopian Integrated Functional Adult Education (Ifae) planning practice
The study's main purpose is to evaluate the planning practices of the Ethiopian Integrated Functional Adult Education (IFAE) programme and to draw lessons that can be learned for future adult education programmes. The study used an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design and involved 224 participants. Data were collected using questionnaires and interviews and analysed by descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. The study found …
Bridging the gaps
Students in pastoral areas encounter a range of e ducational challenges, including engagement and retention issues, geographic isolation, inadequate infrastru cture a nd educational resources, lack of culturally sensitive curricula, and sociocultural barriers. Ad dressing these challenges is crucial for enhancing stu dent learning outcomes in these areas. This study w as conducted to ide ntify and propose relevant educational approaches t hat hel…
Unpacking student engagement and its mediating role in predicting the relationship between self-determination and academic satisfaction among undergraduate students in higher education
Student academic satisfaction, engagement, and self-determination are increasingly being considered in higher education research, as they are crucial concepts for understanding student achievement and well-being. However, exploring how these constructs interact with each other remains underexplored. Hence, this study explores how undergradute students' perception of self-determination relates to their engagement and academic satisfaction in highe…
The influence of teacher leadership on student self-determination in higher education
The importance of teacher leadership in enhancing student learning outcomes, including the fundamental components of self-determination: autonomy, competence, and relatedness, is increasingly recognised. Nonetheless, contextual elements affect the effectiveness of teacher leadership in enhancing student self-determination, yet remain little examined in the higher education context. Addressing this, the present study aims to investigate the influe…
It is all about an appealing environment
Student engagement and the learning environment have gained momentum within the educational research space as valid factors in determining the quality of education. However, empirical evidence on the relationships between the learning environment and student engagement remains scant in the context of higher education in Ethiopia. This article examined the association between student perception of the learning environment and student engagement (a…
Revitalising a student-centred leadership
Purpose In recent years, the study of various forms of teacher leadership styles and behaviours, and student engagement has gained increasing attention because these constructs are critical for understanding student success and well-being. However, investigation of how these constructs interact to shape students' learning, particularly in the Ethiopian higher education contexts, remains underexplored. Addressing the gap, the present study examine…
Indigenous knowledge systems and practices in North Wollo, Ethiopia
From Learning to Leading
Organizational Justice in Higher Education
Justice is an important factor in organizational performance, including in higher education institutions. This study examines how faculty perceive and experience issues of organizational justice across distributive, procedural, and interactional dimensions as practiced by their immediate leaders, such as department heads and college deans. In doing that, the study used a case study design and involved 48 purposively selected participants. Data we…
Rethinking adult education in Ethiopia
Pedagogy (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Medical education (8 obras) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics (7 obras) · Adult education (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Engineering (6 obras)