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  • The role of citizenship performance in academic achievement and graduate employability

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    Poropat, AE
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    Poropat, Arthur E.
    Year published
    2011
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    Purpose - Employability is a major educational goal, but employability programmes emphasise skill development, while employers value performance. Education acts as a model for employment, so educational performance assessment should be aligned with employment models. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between educational and workplace performance, especially the role of Citizenship Performance within educational settings. Design/methodology/approach - Students in an introductory university course rated their own personality, and weeks later assessed one another's Citizenship Performance. ...
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    Purpose - Employability is a major educational goal, but employability programmes emphasise skill development, while employers value performance. Education acts as a model for employment, so educational performance assessment should be aligned with employment models. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between educational and workplace performance, especially the role of Citizenship Performance within educational settings. Design/methodology/approach - Students in an introductory university course rated their own personality, and weeks later assessed one another's Citizenship Performance. The relationship of these ratings to academic Task Performance was analysed with structural equation modelling. Findings - Citizenship Performance was correlated with academic Task Performance, at a similar level to that found in workplace studies. Further, Citizenship Performance mediated the prediction of Task Performance by the personality dimension Conscientiousness, a major predictor of academic performance. Research limitations/implications - Use of separate raters for the various ratings and the study's longitudinal design provides assurance that results are not inflated due to measurement arteficiality, instead probably underestimating correlation strength. Practical implications - Rather than treating employability skills as an additional educational component, university teachers should actively foster student Citizenship Performance within their courses. This will better prepare students for employment and in the short term will aid their studies. Attending to Citizenship Performance also provides benefits to students who are higher on Conscientiousness without restricting access to education based on personality. Originality/value - This is the first study to demonstrate the relevance of Citizenship Performance within educational settings, or to explain how Conscientiousness affects academic performance.
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    Journal Title
    Education + Training
    Volume
    53
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1108/00400911111159467
    Copyright Statement
    © 2011 Emerald. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Education
    Vocational education and training curriculum and pedagogy
    Commerce, management, tourism and services
    Organisational behaviour
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/41126
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