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Luo, Jiahui; Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Zhao, Yue – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Intensive research attention has focused on developing students' evaluative judgement within the higher education curriculum, but little has addressed how it can be measured. The contextual nature of evaluative judgement makes it difficult to generate an encompassing instrument, highlighting the need for situated measurement tools. Against this…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Evaluative Thinking, Intercultural Communication
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Zhu, Marissa M.; Alberts, Kimberly M.; Bork, William N.; Wong, David – Intercultural Education, 2023
This mixed-methods study examines how 15 preservice teachers' self-regulated learning (SRL) skills relate to their ICC development in a teacher education course. ICC was assessed using a standardised exam and an open-ended cultural dilemma. Participants' SRL was assessed along 7 dimensions: planning, goal orientation, task strategies,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Education Programs, Standardized Tests
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Etri, Walead – Higher Education Evaluation and Development, 2022
Purpose: This qualitative research set out to understand what teachers' assessments were of the context of teaching as it relates to the curriculum, and what they consider appropriate for an optimal teaching and learning experience in a university English language teaching (ELT) context. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative data were deemed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Correlation
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Munezane, Yoko – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This study aims to open up a new avenue for the study of intercultural communication in higher education, through exploring the structural relationships among eight individual differences factors that affect intercultural communicative competence (ICC). A group of Japanese university students participated in the study by answering a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Su, Ya-Chen – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018
The development of travel opportunities and technology in the 21st century has brought people from different cultures and countries more opportunities to closely interact. The purposes of the study are to assess the degree of Taiwanese college students' intercultural sensitivities, ethnocentrism, and attitudes toward native English speakers (NES)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lu, Yichen; Berg, D. Ryan – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2019
There has been an increased interest in L2 learners' motivation and autonomy over the past several decades, and both variables are recognized as characteristics of successful language learners. The L2 motivational self system (L2MSS) is a recent approach to L2 motivation research that sheds light on many aspects of a language learners' self.…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Correlation
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Goldstein, Susan B. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2015
Since the early 1960s, there has been a steady increase in the number of students enrolled in institutions of higher education outside of their home countries. This study contributes to the information available to study abroad professionals seeking to guide students in selecting programs that are best suited to their individual characteristics…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Predictor Variables, Preferences, Models