Relationship Between International Students’ Experience, Adjustment And Academic Performance In Malaysian Public Universities
| dc.contributor.author | Othman, Nur Zahiyah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-03T03:59:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-03T03:59:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In 2011, the Ministry of Higher Education has set an aim to project 200,000 international students studying in Malaysia by 2020. The receiving number of international student is aligned with Key Performance Index (KPI) of internationalization of Malaysian Higher Education. Malaysian public universities such as Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), and International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) are among the Malaysian top universities and their participation toward the accomplishment of the aim is not excluded. The growing number of international students since the last few years has brought the universities attention to think on how to better accommodate and retain them. These efforts however depending on how well the international students adjusted to Malaysian environment. More adjustments’ difficulties could affect their academic performance and these may affect their decision to drop or being drop from university. Therefore, the present study has objective to examine (1) the experiences of international undergraduate students that related to three types of adjustments, including sociocultural, psychological and academic, in Malaysia and (2) its effect on academic performance. The experiences tested were social support, English language proficiency, university environment, and general living condition. A total of 580 international undergraduate students participated in the present study. This study used a cross-sectional, quantitative study and applied snowball techniques. Composite reliability for each measurement was calculated to determine internal reliability. Discriminant validity was performed to examine the dissimilarity between the measurements. Analysis of bootstrapping was utilized to examine the relationships of variables as in the proposed framework. Results showed that all types of adjustments including the three dimensions of sociocultural adjustment (impersonal endeavours, cultural empathy, and cultural relatedness), psychological, and academic adjustments were influenced by university environment. Other than university environment, the results showed that: (1) sociocultural (impersonal endeavours) adjustment was influenced by family support, lecturer support, and English language proficiency; (2) sociocultural (cultural empathy and cultural relatedness) adjustment was influenced by English language proficiency; (3) psychological adjustment was influenced by family support, and lecturer support; (4) academic adjustment was influenced by friend support, lecturer support, English language proficiency and general living condition. In addition to that, the sociocultural (cultural empathy), psychological, and academic adjustments were found to positively and significantly affect academic performance of international undergraduate students. In the end of the study, several theoretical, practical and methodological implications were discussed. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2373 | |
| dc.subject | Management | en_US |
| dc.title | Relationship Between International Students’ Experience, Adjustment And Academic Performance In Malaysian Public Universities | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |