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A Study on the Influence of Multi-Teaching Strategy Intervention Program on College Students’ Absorptive Capacity and Employability

Frontiers in Psychology
Journal · Vol. 12 · Art. 631958
Abstract

Student employability is a key aspect of any university degree. The relationship between high student learning outcomes and high employability is a problem that needs to be addressed and improved by colleges and universities. Students with high employability can find good jobs after graduation and perform well in the workplace. Employability is associated with the success of university education, thus giving the university a good reputation. This study explores the development of employability, alongside teaching and student learning abilities to examine how these variables affect student employability. The study collected 442 responses to a questionnaire to investigate the relationship between pedagogy for employability, problem-based learning, absorptive capacity, and student employability based on a structural model. The SEM results show that pedagogy for employability and problem-based learning positively correlate to absorptive capacity; pedagogy for employability and absorptive capacity positively correlate to student employability. We then analyzed a case study teaching intervention strategy with 221 students from the school of management and discuss the differential results of all variables. Results showed that the test group was superior to the control group in each variable performance, indicating that the intervention strategy proved effective. Based on these findings, this study proposes suggestions for future research. © Copyright © 2021 Peng, Wang, Yue, Xu and Feng.

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Higher education Student employability absorptive capacity case teaching strategy intervention program problem-based teaching mode

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School of Economics and Management, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong, China
Research Institute of Higher Education, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
School of Business, Yango University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
School of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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