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organised by Assessment Research Centre of EdUHK
Invited Speakers -
Dr. A.Y.M. Atiquil ISLAM
Dr. A.Y.M. Atiquil ISLAM
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @
Faculty of Education,
East China Normal University
Shanghai, China
Topic of Presentation:
Systematic Research Approach of Model Development and Validation in Higher Education
Speaker Bio:
Dr. A.Y.M. Atiquil Islam is a Research Fellow of Faculty of Education at the East China Normal University. Dr. Islam has also served as a Research Fellow at the University of Malaya, which is the best research university in Malaysia and having 114 world ranking status. He did a multidimensional PhD degree by combining two faculties, namely, Education and Computer Science & Information Technology under the Institute of Graduate Studies, University of Malaya. He obtained his Master of Education in IT from the International Islamic University Malaysia. All the while during his academic life, various scholarships awarded to him certainly has been the prime most instigators of his achievements. He received the Graduation On Time (GOT 2015) Award from the University of Malaya and honorarium for finishing his PhD in less than three years. In his field of specialization, he developed and validated three models, namely, Technology Adoption and Gratification (TAG) Model, Technology Satisfaction Model (TSM) and Online Database Adoption and Satisfaction (ODAS) Model. He has had almost 14 years of experience in academia, industry and business. With regard to leadership, he has proved his abilities as a chief executive in few business and social organizations since 2002 to 2007. Leading from the front, he has conducted several workshops on the application of Structural Equation Modeling, SPSS and Rasch Measurement Model during 2010 to 2016. Furthermore, Dr. Islam has presented and published many papers in the international conferences (Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Malaysia) and journals including books and chapters. He has published in Electronic Library, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, and Journal of Information and Communication Technology. He has also been engaged with many collaborative research projects in conducting quantitative research in higher education by applying Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Rasch Model in Malaysia, China, Saudi Arabia, Oman, South Korea, Philippine, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Dr. Islam is a reviewer and technical committee member of many international conferences and journals. His research interests are in the arena of ICT in Education, Quantitative Modeling, IT Assessment, Educational Research, Information System, Human Computer Interaction, Digital Library Sciences, Mobile Learning, Technology Adoption and Gratification, e-Commerce, New Social Media Analysis, Assessment in Higher Education, Quality in Higher Education and Tourism.
Abstract:
As important as it sounds, quantitative studies have long been leading in all the aspects of higher education, its emphasis has covered but not limited to, the improvement of the quality of teaching, learning and research and the sustainability of research productivity. Under this circumstance, various types of methodologies have been employed by the researchers in order to develop and validate their research models. Also, numerous analytical tools are being applied such as Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), Hierarchical Liner Modeling (HLM), Rasch Model, Partial Least Squares (PLS), and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT). However, despite a decade of existence, literature exhibits that researchers may need to comprehend and apply the systematic research approaches of model development and validation to overcome their misconceptions of quantitative research in higher education. For instance, to integrate ideas logically, researchers should follow two types of approaches such as theoretical and methodological. The theoretical approach is to develop the model, and the methodological approach is to validate the model. Thus, this presentation includes the Technology Adoption and Gratification (TAG) model to indicate and also to explain how the TAG model was developed and validated using systematic research approaches, which might be essential for future researchers, academicians and practitioners in performing quantitative researches in all the arenas of higher education.
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