This is a guidebook for prospective and current international students studying in Australia. It covers topics including: choosing the right university and course; making application; getting to know Australia; travel; budgeting; accommodation; shopping; banking; communications;…
This book presents a comprehensive treatment of issues related to the inception, design, implementation and reporting of large-scale education assessments. In recent years many countries have decided to become involved in international educational assessments to allow them to as…
"This book addresses the models, support, cases, and delivery of K-12 online education, seeking to further the conversation about the most effective ways to integrate ICT into the classroom"--Provided by publisher
Student learning abroad: what our students are learning, what they're not,…
by Stuart, Douglas K., Robinson, Jennifer Meta, Vande Berg, Michael, Paige, R. Michael, Lou, Kris Hemming, Vande Berg, Michael, (ed), Paige, R. Michael, (ed), Lou, Kris Hemming, (ed), Bathurst, Laura, Bennett, Milton J., Bosley, Gabriele Weber, Engle, John, Engle, Lilli, Hammer, Mitchell R., Harvey, Tara A., Kolb, David A., La Brack, Bruce, McCleary, Kate S., Medina-Lopez-Portillo, Adriana, Menyhart, Catherine, Passarelli, Angela M., Quinn, Meghan, Salonen, Riikka, Savicki, Victor, Zull, James E.
A central purpose of this book is to question the claims commonly made about the educational benefits of study abroad. Traditional metrics of enrollment increases and student self-report, and practices of structural immersion, are being questioned as educators voice growing unce…
The dynamics of international student circulation in a global context
by De Wit, H., (ed), Agarwal, P., (ed), Said, M. E., (ed), Sehoole, M. T., (ed), Sirozi, M., (ed), Agarwal, P., De Wit, H., Rumbley, L. E., Said, M. E., Sehoole, M. T., Sirozi, M.
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Student mobility is the most important factor in the internationalization of higher education. In this book, existing assumptions will be questioned: that mobility is primarily South-North and North- North, and that South-South flows are rather marginal; that the economic ration…
In 2020, over a million international students enrolled at universities in the United States. A significant percent come from Muslim-majority countries whose governments sponsor their education abroad. As overall international enrollments decrease, recruiting this population rem…
International student enrollment in U.S. higher education institutions is steadily increasing. In 2018/2019, more than one million international students were pursuing their higher education in the U.S.
It is not known how international and domestic students described the effectiveness, if any, of peer mentoring on intercultural competence at a Western, private Christian university. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to investigate how international and domes…
Posttraumatic stress symptoms have been consistently found to be elevated among people of color due to experiences of discrimination. Current literature on posttraumatic stress symptoms has mainly focused on race and ethnicity. It is possible that Muslim international students, …
International students are crucial to the UNITED STATES’ higher education, both for academic reputation and economic advantages. This mixed-method study examines the traumatic experiences of African international graduate students’ in North Dakota in the United States of America…
This research developed a history of Chi Alpha’s outreach to international students in America. The work recognizes that the same events can support different views, but as of yet, no research has published a comprehensive account in this area. The work of Chi Alpha has greatly …
The motivation for this study was the lack of literature on how evangelical churches and para-church ministries evangelize, disciple, and mobilize international students. Generating a theory of international students’ conversion experiences requires a comprehensive understanding…
This open access book describes and reviews the development of the quality control mechanisms and methodologies associated with IEA's extensive program of educational research. A group of renowned international researchers, directly involved in the design and execution of IEA's …
The purpose of this interdisciplinary study was to explore the experiences of al-rihla of International Muslim Graduate Students and to compare them to those of the Medieval Muslim Travelers. This qualitative study expands on the sparse existing literature by providing a new per…
Despite international students' growing presence in counseling related programs in the United States of America (U.S.), their unique difficulties and needs that merit attention, and their significant contributions in bringing global perspectives into higher education, there is a…
This dissertation explores affective politics of two college microbiology laboratory courses. Drawing from studies of affect, care and politics of aesthetics, I examine how bodies of science education and science education bodies are reproduced and transformed through particular…
This longitudinal, mixed-method study relied on the assumption that international students as newcomers to the American culture experience conceptual socialization which enables them to gain competency in the target language through exposure to the target language culture. By co…
When international graduate students and their families participate in study abroad experiences, there are many challenges and opportunities that accompany these experiences. Depending on the context of the study abroad experience, some might be characterized as both opportuniti…
As the number of students studying in the United States (U.S.) has risen, scholars have increasingly paid attention to multiple aspects of the international student experience. Despite a proliferation of studies generally addressing the topic of international students, few studi…