First Time International College Students’ Level of Anxiety in Relationship to Awareness of Their Learning-Style Preferences (Arlene Shorter Young)
By Krishna Bista on November 27, 2011
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This paper was published in Journal of International Students.
On the web: http://jistudents.org/back-issues/
Abstract
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 students and to analyze the effects of
accommodating learning-style preferences of first year
international college students on achievement and anxiety
levels over one semester. This paper focused on the
identification of learning style profiles of first time visiting
Japanese, Korean, and Chinese college student
populations. It also assessed the anxiety and acculturation
levels of these international students when they
were first introduced to the American educational system
which incorporated teacher facilitation and promoted
student directed studies. Finally, student learning
styles were assessed after a six-week summer session
to see if learning styles remained the same after
students were introduced to the American educational
system. After the six-week summer session and two
semesters, a focus group meeting with a sample population
of students and a separate focus group meeting
with instructors were held to confirm quantitative findings.
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