NDLI: College students’ perceptions of studying abroad and their readiness

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Chang, Dian Fu
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	This study aims to determine what college students believe is essential on studying abroad and investigates which programs they prefer for outbound study. The trend of globalization and expansion of higher education have resulted in changes for studying abroad programs in numerous Asian countries. In particular, the overprovided undergraduate and graduate education system in Taiwan raises questions on how college students perceive such outbound study. This paper collected survey data from 219 college students at 2 universities in Taiwan to analyze their opinions and levels of readiness on studying abroad programs. This study applied fuzzy methods to transform the data and interpret the results, and the findings showed that gender and college major influence student perceptions on the importance of studying abroad, as well as their readiness to study abroad. Typically, women exhibit more preparedness for studying abroad than their male counterparts. Following the expansion of higher education in Taiwan, more students are considering studying abroad programs for short-term stay in foreign countries. According to the patterns of perception, this study built fuzzy models to explain the consistency of importance and levels of readiness on studying abroad. The results reveal that fuzzy statistics can be used for proper interpretation of the factors influencing students to study abroad and their readiness.
Starting Page	583
Ending Page	591
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15981037
Journal	Asia Pacific Education Review
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	1876407X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-07-24
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	College students Study abroad Higher education Internationalization Fuzzy statistics Education (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education

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