Abderrahim Benlahcene

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• PhD/ Educational Psychology
• Assistant Professor at Ajman University

Previous research examined the importance of flourishing in promoting optimal outcomes in academic settings. However, no empirical research has been done on the relationships of flourishing with personal best (PB) and the four aspects of student engagement. The current study addresses this gap by investigating PB goals as the mediating variable in...

Although the adoption of AI-generated content, such as ChatGPT, has extensively transformed traditional teaching and learning paradigms, the critical question of the effectiveness of ChatGPT content in lesson preparation remains largely unanswered. Therefore, this research aims to understand the determinants that drive or hinder this effectiveness,...

Purpose The research aims to unravel the dynamics of academic integrity in the ChatGPT era by analyzing critical predictors such as personal best goals (PBG), academic competence and workplace stress. Furthermore, it examines how ChatGPT adoption acts as a moderating factor, potentially influencing the relationship between these predictors and acad...

This study explores fine motor skills performance among Singaporean kindergarten students. The study adopted a qualitative method of inquiry. The data was acquired through in-depth interviews with thirteen experienced teachers on the emergent behaviors of children; All the 13 participants, have a minimum of 3 years of experience working at the earl...

This chapter discusses the ethical problems around applying artificial intelligence (AI) to educational research. With Transformative Learning Theory and Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) as its conceptual foundations, it explores the impact of AI on data privacy, bias, transparency, and accountability. The qualitative research co...

This study provides a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of research on novice teachers, drawing from the metadata of 1032 publications indexed in the Scopus database. It explores publication trends, key contributors and prevailing research themes from 1945 to 2024, offering insights to inform and enhance support systems for novice teachers. Data...

Purpose-The escalating integration of AI tools like ChatGPT within academia poses a critical challenge regarding their impact on faculty members' and researchers' academic performance levels. This paper aims to delve into academic performance within the context of the ChatGPT era by exploring the influence of several pivotal predictors, such as aca...

Encouraging students’ participation in discussions fosters idea exploration, yet low-proficient students face challenges in English-medium classrooms. Grounded in Sociocultural Theory, this paper investigates how students with limited English proficiency use Malay (L1) as a mediator for idea generation in English (L2) discussions. Through a one-hou...

The aim of this research was to investigate the impact of Total Quality Management (TQM) practices on job satisfaction, specifically examining their influence across high and low performing schools. A sample of 346 teachers from 20 high schools participated in a survey to assess TQM implementation and job satisfaction levels. Utilizing a quantitati...

There is a growing need to understand the role of social and personal factors in relation students’ academic engagement. This study aimed to examine the mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationships between interpersonal relationships (parents, peers, and teachers) and learning engagement (cognitive, behavioural, agentic, and emotional) amon...

ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model, is revolutionising the academic world. Scholars, researchers, and students use its advanced capabilities to achieve their educational objectives, including generating innovative ideas, delivering assignments, and conducting extensive research projects. Nevertheless, the use of ChatGPT among students is content...

(Arabic version): Technostress Scale for Elementary School Teachers (TSEST)

Purpose-Collaborative learning has been increasingly recognized as an effective approach to promote students' success in higher education. To better understand the factors that contribute to successful collaborative learning, this study applied the Biggs' presage-process-product (3P) general model of learning to investigate the role of teaching qua...

Malaysian higher educational institutions are bracing to compete at the international level with the institutions that produce evidence of quality teaching and learning and positive students’ experiences. In this matter, students’ engagement in learning activities has been heralded as a quality indicator of the higher educational institutions’ perf...

Teachers generally understand technostress to represent the psychological distress resulting from problems associated with teaching in a virtual classroom context. This study has been conducted to develop a tool to measure the level of technostress of primary school teachers. The current study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Technostre...

Despite continuously growing literature that emphasises the significant role of students' agency in classroom activities, the construct of agentic engagement has received scant attention in recent empirical research. Drawing from the self-determination theory, the present study aims to determine the relationship between teacher autonomy support and...

Many studies have examined separately the impacts of goal orientations and epistemological beliefs on intrinsic motivation; however, they have not investigated the two concepts in combination to examine their interrelationships with intrinsic motivation. Using Self-Determination theory, this study utilized a cross-sectional research design involvin...

Previous research examined the importance of flourishing in promoting optimal outcomes in academic settings. However, no empirical research has been done on the relationships of flourishing with personal best (PB) and the four aspects of student engagement. The current study addresses this gap by investigating PB goals as the mediating variable in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the associations between students’ basic psychological needs satisfaction, including novelty satisfaction, and the four aspects of student engagement. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from a total sample of 743 undergraduate students from three public universities in northern Malays...

This paper examined the relationship between Big Five personality traits (OCEAN) and academic and social self-efficacies of learning disabilities (LD) learners. A total of 89 LD learners aged 10 to 19 years old completed questionnaires measuring Big-Five personality traits (International Personality Item Pool, IPIP), academic self-efficacy (Academi...

Purpose – The role of teacher autonomy support (TAS) is central to students’ engagement. However, there is a scarcity of empirical evidence on the mediating role of personal best (PB) goals between autonomy support and student engagement. Hence, in this research we examined the extent to which TAS could impact cognitive, behavioural and emotio...

This study investigated students’ perception towards language courses using student-centered learning approach at University Utara Malaysia (UUM). Students’ perception was measured through a model termed as environmental, cognitive, affective, and metacognitive mediation (ECAM) which is a common teaching and learning technique used in classroom act...

Purpose-The role of teacher autonomy support (TAS) is central to students' engagement. However, there is a scarcity of empirical evidence on the mediating role of personal best (PB) goals between autonomy support and student engagement. Hence, in this research we examined the extent to which TAS could impact cognitive, behavioural and emotional eng...

This research examined the relationship between five areas of cognitive autonomy and development among adolescents. Students from middle and high school in Keddah participated in this study. Ninety-four participants responded on the Cognitive Autonomy and Self-Evaluation (CASE) inventory, which examined the evaluative thinking, voicing opinions, co...

The objectives of the present study are to determine the role of students' attitude and how science curriculum influences their intention to learn science subjects. A quantitative correlational research design was used. Data were collected through the survey method by using a questionnaire distributed randomly to 341 secondary school students of se...

An aspect that has been exhaustively researched in the motivation of the higher education discipline is the engineering students' process of goal-orientation, epistemological beliefs towards intrinsic motivation. However, the focus of those researchers as commonly the influence of goal orientations and epistemological beliefs on intrinsic motivatio...