Are International Undergraduates Struggling Academically?

Autor/inn/en	Fass-Holmes, Barry; Vaughn, Allison A.
Titel	Are International Undergraduates Struggling Academically?
Quelle	In: Journal of International Students, 4 (2014) 1, S.60-73 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2162-3104
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Foreign Students; Academic Ability; Grade Point Average; Low Achievement; English (Second Language); English Language Learners; Statistical Significance; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Minority Group Students; Academic Achievement; Cohort Analysis; Demography; Student Records; Data Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; Correlation; Predictor Variables; Public Colleges; Regression (Statistics); SAT (College Admission Test); Test of English as a Foreign Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Schulleistung; Kohortenanalyse; Demografie; Schülerakte; Auswertung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Korrelation; Prädiktor; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Are international undergraduates struggling academically, and are their struggles due to weaknesses in English as a second language? The present study showed that 1) at most 10% of these students in three cohorts (ranging in size from N = 322 to N = 695) at an American west coast public university struggled (quarterly grade point averages below C) in their university classes; 2) up to 63% of them struggled with English (they were required to take a local community college's English Composition and/or English as a Second Language classes, and up to 42% earned course grades of D or F in those classes); and 3) predictors shown to be statistically significant by hierarchical linear modeling each accounted for less than 5% of the total variance ("small" effect sizes). These findings suggest that only a minority of this university's international undergraduates struggle in their university classes even though a majority of them struggle with English. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01