http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11370 2026-01-07T06:17:57Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11391 චරිතය වෙළඳ භාණ්ඩයක් බවට පත්කර ගැනීමේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා නීති තත්වය : ප්‍රකට පුද්ගලයන්ගේ ප්‍රතිරූපයට ඇති අයිතිය තහවුරු කිරීම සඳහා ස්වාධීන ආරක්ෂක පද්දතියක අවශ්‍යතාවය විජේරත්න, ෂෙහානි ශානිකා 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11377 What causes women lawyers to hit a glass ceiling? A suggestion for legal education and professional institutes in Sri Lanka Shanika, W.R.M.S. A very few women lawyers have been represented in senior positions even though many women enrolled in the profession, reflecting a severe problem in women career advancement in the legal profession of Sri Lanka. In this context, psychological factors such as perceived gender ideology predicting women’s career advancement have rarely been studied. Hence, this study aims to investigate the role of perceived gender ideology, and career choice on the career advancement of women lawyers. Data from a purposive sample of three hundred and sixty women lawyers in mid and late-career stages representing ten different job categories in the legal profession were analysed deploying Structural Equation Modeling. It was revealed that women lawyers’ perceived gender ideology impacts their career advancement, while their career choices mediate the relationship between perceived gender ideology and career advancement. Further, career choice has shown no significant impact on career advancement. The study’s findings suggest that the problem of slow and low women career advancement in the legal profession can be remedied through perceived gender ideology. It is established that such remedies are by means of improving appropriate personality traits within women lawyers to meet professional expectations by legal education and professional institutes. The study recommends legal education institutes to review and revise the existing law curricula to include relevant courses that guide the careers of future lawyers. In contrast, professional institutes are recommended to initiate career development programmes enabling women lawyers to connect with expectations of the profession. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11376 The Student Perspective on Usability of Learning Management System at University of Sri Jayewardenepura Amandi, H.E.D.; Shanika, W.R.M.S. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/11375 Student Satisfaction on Online Learning Environment: A Study of Western Province Universities in Sri Lanka Poornima, Y.; Shanika, S. Purpose: Even though education is a one of the precious assets of a country, the COVID-19 outbreak has caused to close higher education institutes for a long period of time. This new normality mandated to conduct teaching and learning activities through online methods without interrupting education. In this context, a satisfaction difference can be observed between physical and online learning among many Sri Lankan university students who used to physical lectures. Therefore, this study intends to investigate the impact of Self- efficacy, learner-content interaction, learner – instructor interaction and learner-learner interaction on student satisfaction within online learning environment. Method: This was a quantitative study conducted using 380 management undergraduates from University of Sri Jayewardenepura, University of Colombo, and University of Kelaniya. Electronically constructed questionnaire was used to collect information consisted with three parts and total of 37 items by using 5 items Likert scale. Finally, the collected data was analyzed using multiple regression analysis and tested 4 hypotheses developed. Findings: This study found that online learning self-efficacy, learner-content interaction, and learner-learner interaction have significant influence on student satisfaction in online learning environment. As opposed to this, learner – instructor interaction had no significant influence on student satisfaction. Implications: The results indicat that mainly universities will be able to build effective and innovative lecture delivery process, develop new methods and standards for online learning resulting in a quality higher education system in Sri Lanka. Future Research: The study has considered only the impact of self-efficacy and interactors on student satisfaction in online learning. There can be other variables too. The study is limited to the Western Province Universities. Thus, these findings can be varied in other Universities. Then future researches can be conducted by using other variables and different contexts. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z