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Zhang, Liang; Pu, Shi – Education Economics, 2017
We used housing assignment data from a college in China to investigate peer effects on college grades. Study results provided some evidence for peer effects in college housing units. First, peer effects through means occurred during both fall and spring semester of the first year in college, with estimated effect much larger than that in previous…
Descriptors: College Housing, Grades (Scholastic), Grade Point Average, College Freshmen
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Heng, Tang T. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This article contests the narrative of Chinese international students (internationals for short) as passive and problematic to reveal the complexity and fluidity of their experiences. Simultaneously, it troubles the overly linear approach of stage theory in understanding internationals' adjustment. Following nine first- and nine second-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Experience, College Students
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Duan, Wenjie; Li, Jinxia; Mu, Wenlong – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
This study examined the psychometric properties of Strengths Knowledge Scale (SKS) and Strengths Use Scale (SUS) in a sample of 442 adolescents by the exploratory structural equation modeling. Correlations between strength use/strength knowledge and flourish, positive affect, negative affect, depression, anxiety, stress, and GPA were examined to…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Adolescents, Correlation, Student Characteristics
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Wang, Yean; Chui, Ernest – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objective: This article reports a study that developed and validated the Perceived Social Work Competence Scale (PSWCS) for assessing social work students' competence in Mainland China. Method: The indicators were generated by a broad empirical review of recent literature, confirmed by experts, and indigenized by means of two focus groups of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Competence, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups
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Postiglione, Gerard A.; Ailei, Xie; Jung, Jisun; Yanbi, Hong – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
New preferential policies in China promise to increase the number of rural students entering top-tier universities, where there is a wider path to a higher social status. While a substantial body of literature has investigated rural students' trajectories to university, there is a dearth of systematic empirical studies on the academic success of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Population, Universities, Academic Achievement
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Prasad, Joshua J.; Showler, Morgan B.; Schmitt, Neal; Ryan, Ann Marie; Nye, Christopher D. – International Journal of Testing, 2017
The present research compares the operation of situational judgement and biodata measures between Chinese and U.S. respondents. We describe the development and past research on both measures, followed by hypothesized differences across the two groups of respondents. We base hypotheses on the nature of the Chinese and U.S. educational systems and…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Hypothesis Testing, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Lam, Un Fong; Chen, Wei-Wen; Zhang, Jingqi; Liang, Ting – School Psychology International, 2015
This study examined the relationships between school belonging, academic emotions, and academic achievement in Macau adolescents. A survey of 406 junior high school students in Macau was used to collect information on the extent to which these students felt accepted and respected in their schools (school belonging), the emotions they experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Student Attitudes, Student School Relationship
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Li, Jing; Guo, Fei; You, You – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
Study abroad can be a life-changing experience, but evidence of its effectiveness is mixed. We examine the experience of studying abroad at colleges in the US and China, which are the largest receiving and sending countries of international students respectively. Using data from two comparable national surveys that follow the same design, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Program Effectiveness, Cross Cultural Studies
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Zhou, Ying-Xue; Ou, Chun-Quan; Zhao, Zhi-Tao; Wan, Cheng-Song; Guo, Cui; Li, Li; Chen, Ping-Yan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Students' first-year academic success plays a critical role on their overall development in college, which implies the need to concentrate on identifying ways to improve students' first-year academic success. Different from most research on the subject, this study attempted to combine the sociological perspective of college impact with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Medical Students, Academic Achievement
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Margavio, Thomas M.; Margavio, Geanie W.; Hignite, Michael A.; Moses, Duane R. – College Student Journal, 2012
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a characteristic of business students that has been the subject of significant research. This study was designed to extend that prior research by comparing the EI scores of American business students with those of Chinese business students. The study further focuses on those factors which may be related to ways in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Emotional Intelligence, Comparative Analysis
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Zhan, Ginny Q.; Moodie, Douglas R.; Sun, Yanmin; Wang, Bailing – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This research project explores learning styles of college students in the US and China. The Grasha-Reichmann Student Learning Style Scale, designed to measure how college students view their learning, was used as the main instrument for the current study. A total of 511 college students, 274 from the US and 237 from China, participated in this…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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Hohner, Margaret; Tsigaris, Panagiotis – Journal of International Education in Business, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the beliefs of undergraduate business students studying in Canada and partners in China about the quality of the program; what they consider effective signals of quality; and their willingness to pay to improve the quality. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was designed and distributed to…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Business Education
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Comegys, Charles; Vaisanen, Jaani; Lupton, Robert A.; Rawlinson, David R. – Journal of International Education Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes towards business ethics of future managers in three countries: the United State, Finland, and China, and determine whether business ethics attitudes differed by the student's major, class year, GPA, gender, age, and the number of ethics and religious studies courses completed. Additionally the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Business, Leadership, Student Attitudes
Parrish, Erin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Each year, millions of high school seniors in China take the National College Entrance Examination (or gaokao). The score the students receive on the gaokao is the sole determinant of whether they will be admitted to college and which college they may attend. Because the demand for college exceeds the availability of admission seats, the…
Descriptors: Asians, College Entrance Examinations, College Admission, Competition
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Hohner, Margaret; Tsigaris, Panagiotis – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
For the past number of years, a Canadian university has been offering its business degree program in universities located in Tianjin and Shanghai, China. This paper examines the alignment of the two grading systems and its implications on the grade distribution of graduates from the programs. An attempt is made to find an exchange rate of the two…
Descriptors: Grading, Case Studies, Alignment (Education), Business Administration Education
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