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Haverila, Matti J.; Haverila, Kai; McLaughlin, Caitlin – Journal of International Students, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between domestic and international students with regards to the variables affecting students' retention intentions. Altogether, 15 variables related to retention intentions were examined and significant differences were found in six of these variables. Variables related to personal…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Students, School Holding Power, Social Integration
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Kang, Jeong-Ja; Metcalfe, Amy Scott – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2019
Many higher education institutions are expanding their academic cross-border mobility programs with the twin imperatives of nurturing students' global awareness and equipping them for future careers. To serve both university and student interests, "study abroad" student exchange programs, which are an official reciprocal academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Study Abroad
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Myers, Phillipa; Riveros, Gus; Duggal, Abhilasha – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
Peoples of Latin American origin are one of the fastest growing communities in Canada, yet little is known about their experiences in Canadian schools. This exploratory case study examines the articulations of agency by mothers of Colombian origin as they transition their children into Southwestern Ontario urban schools. Focus group and follow-up…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Latin Americans, Case Studies, Mothers
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Wu, Xi; Zheng, Jie – Educational Review, 2021
Using the notion of "flexible citizenship", this paper examines how Chinese international secondary school students accumulate and exchange different forms of capital as governed by their transnational social networks. This study draws on data from a 14-month ethnographic field study on the transnational lives of 11 Chinese students in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, International Schools, Asians, Secondary School Students
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Bharara, Gazal – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
A positive transition to secondary school is pivotal to adolescents' mental health and success. However, the school transition research has mainly focused on transition-related adversities rather than adolescent wellbeing and adaptation. While the disturbing consequences of a difficult school transition are known, little attention has been paid to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Student Adjustment, Educational Research
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Beauregard, Caroline; Papazian-Zohrabian, Garine; Rousseau, Cécile – Intercultural Education, 2017
Identity construction can be very complex for refugee children, especially for Palestinian refugee children. For refugee children, organised violence and immigration are important parts of their life experience that can lead to trauma, which in turn influences how they construct their collective identity. Schools have to consider this specific…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Trauma, Refugees, Foreign Countries
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Makarova, Elena; 't Gilde, Judith; Birman, Dina – Intercultural Education, 2019
The present study is embedded in the contextual approach of acculturation research. It examines teachers' attitudes and behaviors, teachers' expectations as well as their teaching practices as risk and resource factors in minority students' school adjustment. The study applies the method of content analysis and uses a deductively developed and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Minority Group Students, Student Adjustment, Teacher Attitudes
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Lin, Xiaobing; Liu, Wei – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
In the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the number of Chinese international students studying overseas. There has also been a corresponding increase in the media stories about their cross-cultural difficulties. Reported in this study is a reflective inquiry into my work as an international student advisor with a large number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Intercultural Communication, Academic Advising
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Bérubé, Annie; Ruel, Julie; April, Johanne; Moreau, André C. – Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Entry into school represents as much a challenge for children as it does for their parents. The authors examined the ways in which transition practices help children and their families feel prepared for school entry, as measured by the child's emotional adaptation during the first days in class and the family's sense of being prepared for this…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, School Readiness, Parent Surveys, Kindergarten
Bilgili, Özge – OECD Publishing, 2017
This paper focuses on children with a migration background and conceptualises their migration experience as adversity. The paper adapts the resilience framework to understand how immigrant children can overcome adversity. The paper discusses policy models that can be derived from adopting a resilience approach to the measurement of immigrant…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Models, Resilience (Psychology)
Larmond, Deborah – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to better understand the lived experiences of students with learning disabilities who have transitioned to postsecondary education in Alberta, Canada and the meaning students attribute to those experiences. A semi-structured interview format with open-ended questions was used to explore…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Qualitative Research, Phenomenology, Learning Disabilities
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Stigger, Elizabeth – BC TEAL Journal, 2019
This review synthesizes the findings of research compiled between the relationship on international student success and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Increasingly, within higher education, IELTS test scores have become not only a benchmark for testing the language proficiency of international students who speak English…
Descriptors: Correlation, Foreign Students, Academic Achievement, Language Tests
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Wang, Peiyu; Zhou, George – McGill Journal of Education, 2021
With an increasing number of international students coming to Canada for higher education, Canadian universities are offering diverse English language improvement programs (ELIPs) to improve international students' English proficiency. However, some Chinese international students struggle to pass such programs and eventually withdraw. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Dropouts, Academic Failure, Foreign Countries
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Kennett, Deborah J.; Reed, Maureen J.; VandenBerg, Tasmine R. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
The University Life Experience Inventory was created to determine how students utilize their time between academic (class and preparatory) and nonacademic (work, social, leisure, and health) activities. In addition to completing the university life experience inventory, 239 undergraduate students completed inventories assessing academic…
Descriptors: Time Management, Leisure Time, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Xing, Deyu; Bolden, Benjamin – Journal of International Students, 2019
This study employed narrative inquiry to understand the oral English learning motivation of Chinese international students with low oral English proficiency through their academic acculturation stories. Expectancy-value theory served as the theoretical framework to inform the study design and the interpretation of results. Findings suggest all…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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