Student Performance at Tertiary Level: The Role of Social Work Education
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Social Work Education, Spiritual Orientation, Commitment to Be Professional, Practice Learning, Student PerformanceAbstract
This paper has been designed to examine the role of satisfaction towards discipline, spiritual orientation, and commitment to be professional in student performance at the tertiary level in the Punjab province. Social work has become an essential component of higher education globally, especially with the rise of globalization and internationalization. The study has been based on a quantitative approach. It uses the data from a sample of 347 social work discipline students from public sector universities through a proportionate random sampling technique. It is important to mention that the students have been enrolled in the BS (4 Years) program. A cross-sectional survey was conducted, and a structured questionnaire was administered to collect information from social work students. It was pretested from 30 randomly selected students, and reliability was confirmed. It used three independent, two paths, one dependent, and one intervening variable. In the same way, the study found that satisfaction towards discipline, spiritual orientation, and commitment to be professional indirectly affect social work student performance through the mediation of practice learning and supervision of academic activity.
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