Learning experience and satisfaction of international students in China

摘要

The globalization becomes the today's world life.It has been entered in higher education.There is a big competition of students seeking to study abroad.The marketing of higher education is one tool used by educationalist in order to increase enrollments.But satisfy recruited students for retention has not been paid attention to.The purpose of this research is to explore the satisfaction of international students in China.To make the research more understandable and specific, we choose the case study of a comprehensive University.The source of information is the questionnaire distributed to international students.Data are presented using SPSS and quantitative analyses are made supported by relationship analysis using regression and correlation.The result showed that practical work (internship and field trip) resources like library and networking opportunities (for employment) are too important.But their performance are still low, there is a high gap in those services.University performs better in areas of digital resources (soft materials).The class participation is good confirmed by a good mean of importance and performance of interaction in class, class presentation and attending class on time.Same data confirmed by the relationship between importance of learning satisfaction; learning methods and learning experience.The research concludes with recommendation to increase library service, and explore the minimization of the gap in practical work.

目录

声明

ABSTRACT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT

1．INTRODUCTION

1．3．Research aims and Objectives

1．5．1．Acadcmic Interest

1．5．2．Managerial interest

2 LITERATURE REVIEW

2．2 Globalization and higher education

2．3 Globalization of Chinese Higher Education

2．3．1 Internationalizations of Chinese institution and international students in China

2．3．2 Chinese students abroad

2．4 Learning satisfaction

2．4．2 Factors of learning satisfaction

2．4．3 Satisfaction of mode of study

2．4．4 Importance of tracking students’ satisfaction

3 METHODOLOGY

3．3 Data collection procedure

3．5 Ethical Consideration

4 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

4．1 Demography

4．2 Learning methods

4．2．1 Importance of learning methods

4．2．2 Performance of learning methods

4．2．3 The gap between Importance and Performance of learning methods

4．3 Leaning satisfaction

4．4 Learning experience

4．5 Learning activities

5 DATA ANALYSIS

5．1．1 Course has enhanced professional knowledge

5．1．2 Deepening the specialization：Course has deepened knowledge in field of study

5．1．3 Learning efficiency：Course has increased learning efficiency

5．2 Correlation between importance of learning satisfaction and importance learning method(17 in annex1)

5．3 Correlation between importance of learning satisfaction (ILS) and importance learning experience (ILE)

6．CONCLUSION，IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

6．3 Recommendations

4．3． General conclusions

REFERENCE

Annex