Muhammad KamranUniversity of Loralai · Department of Education
Muhammad Kamran
Ph.D in Comparative Education Northeast Normal University China
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Introduction
Research on creativity, creative, and critical thinking
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March 2019 - present
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- I am working as Assistant Professor in Department of Education. My research area is Creativity in Education
Education
September 2014 - June 2018
Publications
Publications (60)
Positive psychology is transformative in developing individuals' self-esteem, life satisfaction, subjective happiness, and social competence. The objectives of the present study were to investigate the impact of self-esteem and overall life satisfaction on perceived social competence in university students while measuring subjective happiness as a...
Introduction: Bullying is a significant social problem that affects educational institutions worldwide, including those in Pakistan. This study extends the existing literature by going beyond reporting the prevalence and consequences of bullying in Pakistan. It examines the prevalence of different bully groups among university students (N = 1,034;...
Quantitative Data Analysis through Using SPSS and AMOS software
EFA and CFA techniques for the scale/ instrument/tool/ questionnaire validation process
All of us experience happiness, but the ways we pursue and perceive it are different. Happiness is a significant component of our lives; we are all striving for it. In this study, we examined how cultural perspectives affect our happiness. Cultural perspectives play an important role in shaping our perception of happiness and in achieving it. We us...
This study aimed to explore teachers' perceptions of the efficiency of gamification, which is known to spark students' engagement and result in better learning at secondary schools. Gamification may play an integral role in Pakistan's education system which includes English as a Second Language (ESL). Using a qualitative research design and phenome...
Several studies have reported a high prevalence of bullying among university students in Pakistan, ranging from 60-90%. However, detailed research on categorizing students into different bullying roles and examining differences in moral disengagement beliefs has been limited in the Pakistani context. Data were collected from 1,034 students across P...
Presentation Title: Bullying Roles and Moral Disengagement:
The Influence of Demographic Variables Among
University Students in Pakistan, Presented at Copenhagen, Denmark
Introduction: Teacher burnout is a critical issue in the educational sector, characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished professional efficacy. This study aims to investigate the interplay of motivations, emotions, strategies, and teaching in relation to teacher burnout,
considering factors like job satisfaction, self-...
This study aims to analyze the relationship between mindfulness, environmental satisfaction, and environmental identity of adults. A sample of 367 adults was recruited using convenient sampling, and data were collected through online surveys. A quantitative analysis was carried out with SMART PLS-SEM to explore the structural relationships between...
The study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Course Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) among 739 Pakistani university students (29.6% men, 70.4% women). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and Cronbach's Alpha were used to assess reliability. EFA revealed a three-factor structure, but Factor 3, with only one item, was removed. The two remaini...
Learning strategies have been critical due to a large body of evidence verifying their association with various outcomes such as academic success, creativity, critical thinking, life satisfaction, self-efficacy, metacognitive awareness, emotional intelligence, and student motivation. Therefore, identifying better learning strategies can benefit stu...
The Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSES) was developed in 1965 to measure self-esteem, and it has been used and translated into different languages to be applied to different samples. A quantitative instrumental research design, looking for the psychometric properties of the RSES scale, was conducted in Pakistan with University students (N= 455) enrolled i...
Cultivation theory posits that heavy exposure to violent media content can lead to increased aggressive behavior, as well as heightened anxiety and fear regarding personal safety, particularly among young people. This study investigates these effects by focusing on the impact of violent TV news on sensitization, insecurity, mistrust, and fear among...
The study explored the differences in preferred learning strategies according to students' academic achievement, age, area, and gender among the university students of various departments of the University of Loralai, Balochistan. A survey research method was used to conduct this study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to determine...
Academia in college is different from high school because college students will meet people who have different cultures, personalities, points of view, and interests. Personal adjustments are essential for these college students in this different scenario. Not only can it boost social interaction but it will help how to be persistent and resilient...
The purpose of the study was to explore the characteristics of the concrete operational stage among primary school students in Loralai. All the students studying in classes 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th at Government Girls High School Muhallah Kudezai comprise the population of the study. The total number of students was 223. Out of the total population,...
Objectives
Negative attitudes toward polio vaccination in Pakistan are threatening the global polio eradication efforts by encouraging vaccine refusals and attacks on polio workers. The present research explored the underlying dimensions of these attitudes and their correlates: Uncertainty and belief in conspiracy theories.
Methods
This research b...
The current study intends to investigate the relationship between students' academic performance in the Department of Education at the University of Loralai, Balochistan, and the organization and critical thinking learning strategy. This quantitative study used a sample of 300 randomly selected students from the University of Lorelai's Department o...
Instructors carry out a crucial role when they foster creativity in both their students and their classes. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate how university professors view innovation. It was the University of Loralai case study. There were twenty-five university teachers (18 men and 07 women) who were selected at random from th...
The study explored the differences in preferred learning strategies according to students' academic achievement, age, area, and gender among the university students of various departments of the University of Loralai, Balochistan. A survey research method was used to conduct this study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to determine...
Metacognition is changing, interpreting, and managing one's ideas and thoughts. Rumination and depression are predicted by having specific problematic metacognitive beliefs. The focus of this study was to explore rumination's mediating role in the association between metacognition and interpersonal sensitivity. It included 304 participants selected...
Background: School leadership (SL) is essential to the overall growth of the school setup, especially in the
improvement of the teachers’ pedagogical competence (TPC). The quality of TPC was not up to the mark hence it
was expected that SL may help teachers to improve their TPC.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate the cont...
This study explored the influence of the parenting styles of the parents on the behavior of the children from southern Punjab, Pakistan, through a qualitative research design. A purposive sampling technique was used, and a semi-structured interview protocol was developed for data collection. The five parents (mothers) whose parenting styles had to...
Classroom Creativity Climate Scale (CCCS) for Pakistani indigenous researchers and
international researchers
Recommendation: This scale can be used to measure the prevalence of creativity and/ or creative thinking inside the classrooms at the school, college, and University Levels around the globe. The said scale reported the sound psychometric pro...
This study portrayed Islamia College Peshawar (ICP) as an icon in academia and research since 2008, when it was upgraded from a college to a university. The study is based on quantitative cum qualitative research. The faculty of Islamia College Peshawar was taken as the population for whom a self-structured questionnaire was used to collect the dat...
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of self-efficacy and perfectionism on academic procrastination among university students and its differences among genders in Pakistan. It was hypothesized that self-efficacy and perfectionism would significantly impact academic procrastination and that there is a significant difference in students' views con...
Like other nations, work-family conflicts and their consequences have also been shown in Pakistan. The study had mainly two variables i.e., IV (Work-family conflict as WFC) and DV (psychological well-being as PWB). By employing a quantitative research design, we investigated the effect of IV on the DV of public university teachers in Lahore city. W...
The primary objective of the study was to run the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the instrument named analysis of external monitoring and evaluation system to propose a rationalized model (an instrument) for the school education department in Punjab. The instrument was made by the researcher from the body of broad literature. The study was in...
The present study aims to find out the corona humourism in the WhatsApp messages of Pakistani English teachers. Corona humourism not only assists language users in dealing with fear, but it also assists in overcoming the psychological and social barriers associated with any pandemic. In the present study, the researchers used the term "corona humor...
Male and female students' choices always matter when it comes to the selection of any profession or any kind of strategy that is why our study is of supreme importance. This study was conducted to make sure that male students select different learning strategies for their lecture than female students and vice versa. The study was conducted in the D...
The present study was undertaken to a) assess the relationship of self-disclosure and disclosure flexibility with personal growth, b) examine differences in the personal growth of individuals with low and high self-disclosure flexibility, and lastly, c) determine the interactive effect of self-disclosure and disclosure on personal growth among youn...
The key objective of the study was to know the level of perceptions of Pakistani teachers about the promoters that promote creativity in students. Furthermore, the teachers' level of perception was compared with respect to their certain demographic features, i.e., age, academic qualification, and professional qualification. The design of the study...
This research article drove us to inspect the perception of Pakistani teachers' creativity promotion with respect to teaching experience, teaching level, sector and gender vise schooling system, and subject teachers teach in their classrooms. We used the quantitative research design and applied the survey (questionnaire) as a method of data collect...
This study intends to assess students' attitudes at secondary-level schools about the causes of environmental changes and related issues across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. All human beings, especially students at the school level, need to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection to create a bright...
The key objective of the study was to know the level of perceptions of Pakistani teachers about the promoters that promote creativity in students. Furthermore, the teachers' level of perception was compared with respect to their certain demographic features, i.e., age, academic qualification, and professional qualification. The design of the study...
Experts in the inclusive education (denoted as IE in the later parts) field state that education is the right of every child, therefore, IE is extremely important around the globe. The same is the case for Pakistan, therefore, measuring the Pakistani indigenous school teachers' attitudes towards IE is an important fact for which providing a valid I...
The study explored the most and least preferred learning strategies from the preservice teachers who were enrolled in the Department of Education. The study employed the quantitative research method in which the descriptive research design was used to explore the learning strategies. The sample consisted of 157 preservice teachers (M=101, F=56) fro...
Interest is considered a vital element that helps in attaining the educational goals of students. Parents also set some expectations for their children's education and career, which may not always align with their interests; consequently, their educational practice may suffer. In this regard, this study was designed to examine the relationship betw...
Interest is considered a vital element that helps in attaining the educational goals of students. Parents also set some expectations for their children's education and career, which may not always align with their interests; consequently, their educational practice may suffer. In this regard, this study was designed to examine the relationship betw...
The main objective of the study was to know the level of perception of teachers about the promoters that promote creativity among the students. Further, the teachers' level of perception were compared regarding demographic variables of gender, area and marital status. The design of the study was quantitative in nature and used the survey method to...
Although creativity is necessary at all educational stages, this article forcibly says that it is inevitable at the primary educational stage. This article is of commentary type that comments on how creativity is essential in primary education. The article further proves that creativity and education cannot be separated but are concomitant for seve...
The purpose of this article was to shower light on the quality of life that mostly we expect. Life quality is determined by two aspects i.e., physiological and psychological aspects. While if a person is addicted to the drugs, then both aspects of his/ her life is deteriorated to the extreme. Due to drug addiction, the negative psychological effect...
The main objective of this study was to explore the factors that promote creativity among the students at secondary level. The methodological design of the study was quantitative in nature, which used the exploratory survey because the researchers had to explore the factors that promote the creativity. The target population was all the secondary sc...
From the Pakistani sociocultural perspective, this study investigated the general attitudes of Pakistani teachers towards creativity, which were ranked as the medium by involving a total of 155 (65 Males and 90 Females) teachers from diverse areas. Demographic variables such as gender, highest professional qualification, teaching level, and key sub...
Purpose of the study: This study finds the barriers responsible for females' low literacy in the Balochistan province of Pakistan at the primary school level. Methodology: Qualitative research design was applied to this study. Data were collected through the interview tool and were analyzed through a thematic analysis procedure. Results were given...
Commitment and efficiency of teachers have an important input in the successful accomplishment of educational objectives of any nation; thus, highly motivated teachers are vital for an effective educational approach. By using a quantitative method, this study examined why teachers select the teaching as a profession for their life career. Through t...
Commitment and efficiency of teachers have an important input in the successful accomplishment of educational objectives of any nation; thus, highly motivated teachers are vital for an effective educational approach. By using a quantitative method, this study examined why teachers select the teaching as a profession for their life career. Through t...
This study aims to point out the factors that deteriorate quality of education in public and private primary schools in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. A qualitative research design was adopted and a self-developed, validated, and reliable semi-structured interview was administered. Interviews were conducted with 12 (6 public and 6 pri...
This paper was designed to investigate the Pakistani secondary science teachers' understanding about the definition of creativity. The design of study was qualitative based on grounded theory method. This study recruited 20 (08 males & 12 females) teachers, which wereselected purely based on the purposive sampling technique. All the recruited teach...
This article is based on a study that examined and compared the attitudes of students from education discipline versus other disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Biology and others) of Gomal University towards the teaching profession in Pakistan. The design of the study was quantitative survey. A sample of 292 students (178 males & 114 females) partici...
The study aimed to look for the participation and comparison of gender-based teachers’ involvement in the development of various personality traits of students at secondary school level. To answer the research questions, a sequential explanatory mixed method design was adopted. The Southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were taken as a source of...
This study aims at highlighting the process of indigenization in Pakistani English written discourse. Certain features of Pakistani English have been found indigenized and variant because of the influence of Urdu and non-native Pakistani context. Such variations and modifications result in indigenization. English in Pakistan is influenced by the so...
China has become a hub in providing quality higher education to students across the world. Similarly, annually thousands of Pakistani students come to China to pursue their higher studies and face several new problems. Recognizing and suggesting solutions to those problems is now essential for their successful accomplishment. This study investigate...
This study was designed for introducing peace education in pre-service teachers training programs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Peace education is more effective and significant, when implemented according to the social and cultural perspective and the requirements of a country. It should develop the cultural and spiritual principles together wi...
Questions
Question (1)
Dear researchers, I have MSR (meta cognitive self regulation) learning strategy as independent variable while Students' Score (Students'GPA) is my dependent variable. MSR is on five point Likert scale while for Students'GPA each student put his own GPA on the questionnaire in form of digits like 2 , 2.1, 2.7, 2.3, 3, 3.6, 4 etc.
The students score is in random form.
Each student put his own score whatever he got in the previous semester. Now my question is which kind of correlation should I use? Can I go for the Pearson correlation? How to handle with the Students'GPA variable? The sample size is 300 students which means that I have 300 Students'GPAs. It's a confusing whether I should consider the Students'GPA as ordinal, interval or ratio variable? Which kind of correlation should I go for?
Please, guide.
