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Ma, Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to explore the first-year academic experiences and achievement of Chinese international undergraduate students in American higher education. To do so, I tracked a cohort of Chinese international undergraduates through their first-year at a public research university in the United States. Both qualitative and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Public Colleges, Qualitative Research
Shen, Yuh-Ling – International Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This study examines how the parental support and control affected school outcomes through conformity to parents, self-esteem, and self-efficacy in adolescence in Mainland China. The sample included 350 junior and senior high school students age ranging from 12 to 19 years, 48% of them were males. Using path model analysis, results showed that…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Social Behavior, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Hamilton, Kristen; Kennedy, Matthew; Crespin-Mueller, Dorys – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2010
This study was requested by the Senate International Affairs Committee. The research questions included: (1) What factors affect the cumulative GPA (CGPA) of International students at TRU?; (2) What factors affect the retention of International students at TRU?; and (3) Are Student Success Courses among the significant factors for GPA and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Academic Support Services, Program Effectiveness
Young, Arlene Shorter – Journal of International Students, 2011
Given the receptivity of American colleges to international students, administrators and professors must recognize the diversity such registrants bring to campus in the form of achievement, age, gender, language, and national differences. The purpose of this study was to compare learning style preferences of international first year college…
Descriptors: College Students, Anxiety, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style
Zhou, Qing; Main, Alexandra; Wang, Yun – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
The prospective relations of temperamental effortful control and anger/frustration to Chinese children's (N = 425, age range = 6.6-9.1 years) academic achievement (grade point average, or GPA) and social adjustment (externalizing problems and social competence) were examined in a 2-wave (3.8 years apart) longitudinal study. Parents and teachers…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Personality, Social Adjustment
Zhang, Ling – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The increasing global cooperation between countries has brought collaboration as a fundamental concern to educators around the world. Recent educational issues and research on collaborative learning have shown the power of collaborative education. How to teach college students the inter-societal skills to resolve tensions and conflicts between the…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Liberal Arts
Jia, Yueming; Way, Niobe; Ling, Guangming; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Chen, Xinyin; Hughes, Diane; Ke, Xiaoyan; Lu, Zuhong – Child Development, 2009
This study explored students' perceptions of 3 dimensions of school climate (teacher support, student-student support, and opportunities for autonomy in the classroom) and the associations between these dimensions and adolescent psychological and academic adjustment in China and the United States. Data were drawn from 2 studies involving 706…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Grade Point Average, Adolescents
Chen, Li – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Scholastic Aptitude Test, called SAT, has an immense influence in Chinese education. Most Chinese students choose to attend tutoring programs outside of the school curriculum to help them prepare. This study explores the tutoring programs both in China and the United States to assess variables that affect the quality of their preparation.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Academic Aptitude, Grade Point Average
Carhill, Avary; Suarez-Orozco, Carola; Paez, Mariela – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
This study aims to increase understanding of factors that account for academic English language proficiency in a sample of 274 adolescent first-generation immigrant students from China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Central America, and Mexico. Previous research has shown the importance of English language proficiency in predicting academic…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
Xie, Bin; Chou, Chih-Ping; Spruijt-Metz, Donna; Reynolds, Kim; Clark, Florence; Palmer, Paula H.; Gallaher, Peggy; Sun, Ping; Guo, Qian; Johnson, C. Anderson – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2006
Objective: To investigate weight perception and related psychological factors in Chinese adolescents. Methods: A questionnaire on weight perception, academic performance, stress, hostility, and depression was completed by 6863 middle and high school students. Weight and height were measured. Results: Overweight perception was related to…
Descriptors: Obesity, Grade Point Average, Self Concept, Academic Achievement
Shen, Yuh-Ling; Peterson, Gary – 1999
This study examined how parental practices in mainland China influence adolescents' school performance, including school motivation and grade point average (GPA), when moderated by self-esteem and self-efficacy. Participating in the study were 497 students, ranging in age from 12 to 19 years, attending six public junior and senior high schools.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents