RETRACTED: Can engagement in learning enhance tourism undergraduates’ employability? A case study

By Jinhua Chen, Hong Shi, Yile Dong, Mengyuan Yang, Ziwei Han. The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education, 2020

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Whether the learning engagement of tourism students during undergraduate study can improve their comprehensive quality effectively and promote their employability? In order to make the results of research adaptively and pertinently, this paper introduced a structural equation model according to job involvement, performance theory, and student participation theory to analyze the influence of the learning engagement of tourism undergraduates on their employability under the research of the employment tracking data of 510 tourism undergraduates in different years. The study found that the standardized path coefficient of the learning engagement on the employability of tourism students during their undergraduate study was 0.69, which had a significant positive effect; behavioral engagement has significant positive influence on employability. Cognitive engagement has a significant positive effect on all dimensions of employability. Emotional engagement has a significant positive effect on all dimensions of employability. According to the results, tourism students can strengthen their learning engagement during undergraduate study to face the employment competition. Schools and society should also use a variety of modern means and network technology to guide students to promote their investment in learning.

Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology

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