Tahira Lashari

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at National University of Sciences and Technology

Spatial thinking is the ability to mentally visualize and manipulate 3D objects, identify patterns, and describe relationships among objects in a setting. These skills are highly predictive of success in engineering, architecture, graphic design, computer science, and other fields of education. In our education system, at the school level, teachers...

Gamification has been used by teachers as a tool to review basic concepts learnt by students in traditional as well as in flipped classrooms. This technology offers students the ability to participate either individually or in teams to solve problems within the given time constraints with points awarded or deducted for the answers provided, and the...

The established relationship between one's successful career choices and career interests drives increased adoption of interest assessment tools in career guidance. The use of technology can significantly improve this process. While there are existing international career assessment tools, there needs to be more tools tailored to Pakistani students...

Special education, like mainstream education, is equally as important for an inclusive and progressive society where no student is left behind. However, due to lack of research and resource allocation to special education students with special needs do not have access to the same opportunities as compared to a mainstream student. The reason for thi...

This study provides a thorough assessment of the user experience of an augmented reality (AR) e-learning application specifically developed for the 9th-grade physics chapter on Work and Energy. The study employs an experimental methodology and applies the System Usability Scale (SUS) to examine several aspects of usability and user perception. The...

It can be very difficult and demanding to keep students interested and motivated to learn difficult concepts and ideas; this is especially true if the task seems difficult and unique to the students. The digital generation enjoys using mobile applications. The study's goal was to encourage instructors to use digital assessment tools and approaches...

With the conception of modern technology that rose with 4th industrial revolution, conventional methods of teaching are getting obsolete and the impact of this revolution carves deeply into the current generation of students. Two of the few most effected subjects in education are mathematics and physics as it is harder for a student to visualize th...

Objectives Empathy, coping strategies, and professional quality of life (ProQoL) play a significant role in an individual’s professional life. Several studies have indicated that the unfavorable consequences of compassion and empathy lead to compassion fatigue and burnout. The present study aims to examine the correlation among empathy, coping stra...

Gender inclusion and female participation in STEM courses have always been challenging in a patriarchal country like Pakistan. Women are often underrepresented in engineering fields, as engineering fields are usually considered manly. Female students confront many challenges, be it workplace or educational institutes. Some of the self-perceived and...

In Pakistan, students do not perform well in science subjects at primary and middle levels due to obsolete teaching methods in public schools, which gives rise to difficulty in understanding science concepts. The reason behind carrying out this study is to investigate the effectiveness of technology on the motivation of middle school students using...

In today’s globalized world, 21st century skills, such as communication and collaboration, are essential for success. For EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in Pakistan, acquiring these skills can be challenging due to the unique linguistic and cultural barriers they face. Web 2.0 tools, such as Padlet, can provide a platform for EFL lear...

Sentiments are the key factors that lead to influence our behavior. Sentiment analysis is a technique that analyzes people’s behaviors, attitudes, and emotions toward a service, product, topic, or event. Since 2020, no country has remained untouched by COVID-19, and the governing bodies of most countries have been applying several anti-pandemic cou...

Addressing the employment problems facing persons with disabilities (PWDs) is complicated as it depends on the presence of certain core values of others such as non-discrimination, torecognize their capabilities. PWDs canengage in many economic activities in Pakistan, however, in general, the employment rate for PWDs is relatively low. Qualitative...

Purpose International students with low proficiency in the English language remain at high risk of academic, social and psychological maladjustment. Using an acculturation theoretical framework, this study aims to show that acculturation stress and social support mediate the relationship between language proficiency and academic, social, and psycho...

Millions of people are affected by mental illness which remains unnoticed due to lack of awareness, use of appropriate, timely mental health services, associated stigma, and limited resources. Ignorance leads to serious consequences resulted in maladjustment in life functioning. Since adulthood is a period prone to heightened emotionality. Therefor...

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...

In the fast-paced era of educational digitization, the nature of learning styles has been changing drastically, over the time with novel learning practices. In this study, to enhance a self-paced and personalized student learning experience, an integrated approach was implemented, based on the latest system of HTML5-based interactive videos content...

There is a need for emphasis on improving educational practices in schools by making classroom education more inclusive so that all types of students can participate actively in learning, regardless of their interests, disabilities and learning styles. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effect on student academic achievement when undergone...

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...

The study aimed at identifying the association between Bandura's four hypothesized self-efficacy sources and reading comprehension by employing reading self-efficacy beliefs as a mediating variable. A correlational research design was used. A total of 351 Saudi EFL learners were selected from eight public universities of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by...

This presentation is about the role of self-regulation in the writing performance of young Pakistani ESL students.

This study was conducted to find the association between pronunciation self-efficacy sources and pronunciation self-efficacy beliefs. It was quantitative in nature using correlational research design. A sample of 155 Malaysian ESL university students was selected from two Malaysian universities by employing proportionate stratified random sampling....

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...

The aim of the study is to investigate the relationships between the affective learning attributes and academic achievement among engineering students. The affective learning attributes of interest were self-efficacy, attitude towards engineering, and student's engagement. A survey was conducted on first year students from the engineering diploma p...

Marital adjustment is an important area of research as it promotes emotional stability, intellectual efficiency, and social effectiveness. In general, however, there has been relatively little research in identifying the contributing factors in marital adjustment. Therefore, the present study intents to investigate the contribution of psychological...

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...

An aspect that has been exhaustively researched in the internationalization of the higher education discipline is the international students’ process of adjustment or fitting in when studying in foreign countries. The focus of those researches was commonly on how they adjust to learning in the universities, as well as how the academic staff adjusts...

Engineers are responsible for the sustainable development of society and to be effective in their role they must possess holistic skills that encompass the skills of the affective and the cognitive domain. Therefore, engineering education must place equal emphasis on the needs of the affective domain in addition to the needs of the cognitive domain...

Promoting students' engagement has been of great interest to engineering educators as it is associated with better teaching and learning effectiveness. However, students' engagement is a multifaceted construct comprising the cognitive, affective, and behavioural aspect of engagements which makes it difficult to get a holistic measure of it. Thus, t...

Learning in the cognitive domain is highly emphasised and has been widely investigated in engineering education. Lesser emphasis is placed on the affective dimension although the role of affects has been supported by research. The lack of understanding on learning theories and how they may be translated into classroom application of teaching and le...

The affective aspect of learning (feeling, emotion, and attitude) tends to be relatively less appreciated in engineering education compared to the cognitive aspect of learning, although numerous studies support the importance of the affective dimension in facilitating the effective cognitive processes and the internalization of cognitive knowledge....