Impact of Educational Quality, Educational Resource, and Educational Climate on Educational Engagement and Student Intention to Attend Lectures

Abstract

The education sector plays a vital role in the economic development of a country. Developing students’ interest in education is critical for achieving this goal. Therefore, this study explored the effect of educational quality, educational resource, and educational climate on student intention to attend lectures via the mediating role of educational engagement and the moderation of the educational process. This research adopted cross-sectional research design and quantitative research approach. Respondents of this research were students whose response was collected through well-designed questionnaire on a Likert scale. Questionnaire was distributed among 300 students and received back from 203 students for further analysis. This study used AMOS for the analysis of collected data. The findings of the current study show that educational quality, educational resource, and educational climate have positive effect on educational engagement. Moreover, educational engagement has positive effect on intentions to attend lectures. Also, findings demonstrate that educational engagement has mediating role as well in proposed model. In the end, moderation of educational process is also statistically supported. This research adds to the body of literature by discussing moderating effect of educational process between educational engagement and intentions. The results of the study are important for scholars for their future studies.