Factors affecting academic performance of international students in project management courses: A case study from a British Post 92 University

Lebcir, Reda; Wells, Hany; Bond, Alan

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2008.02.003

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“…For example, studies show that positive student qualities (Ho et al, 2010), their commitment to research and writing research articles (Humphrey, Marshall, & Leonardo, 2012), involvement in academic conferences (Bolli, Agasisti, & Johnes, 2015), having good scientific discipline (Groenvynck, Vandevelde, & Van Rossem, 2013), and having good interpersonal working relationships with advisors (Ives & Rowley, 2005) can determine success in their academic program as well as in their professional career. Also, gender and language proficiency levels are sometimes ÜNİVERSİTEPARK Bülten | Bulletin • Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2017 mentioned as reasons (Lebcir, Wells, & Bond, 2008;Rodwell & Neumann, 2008). They contend that "students with weak educational strategies and without persistence to achieve their aims in life" (Araque, Roldánb, & Salgueroa, 2009, p. 563) were likely to achieve low success rates.…”

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Factors Influencing the Degree Progress of International PhD Students from Africa: An Exploratory Study

Soumana¹,

Uddin²

2017

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In recent decades some countries of the Middle East have offered facilities to attract international students to pursue their higher education within their higher education institutions. The purpose of this study is to understand the difficulties faced by these students while conducting their studies abroad, and in doing so, to broaden the awareness of the challenges they face to complete their research. The participants of this qualitative study are international PhD students studying at a Middle Eastern public university. The university has reported increasing enrollment of international students, particularly from Africa in the last few years. Data were collected using a set of semi-structured interviews that drew out information on critical incidents that characterized the kind of difficulties students had faced in their studies. The data collected was further analyzed using a qualitative software package, NVivo (QSR International, 11). Six main themes came out from the content analysis of the interviews, which are the role of the adviser, student features, funding issues, family engagement, research and psychological obstacles which provide a holistic picture of student perspectives on the factors that influence degree progress. While these students might have faced difficulties mentioned in existing literature, this study argues that the participants have indicated experiencing psychological obstacles that were not described in earlier studies, such as the state of mind they were in as a result of being worried for family members due to war or violence in their home countries, and drop in currency exchange rates and difficulties in acquiring money due to international sanctions imposed against their countries. This study provides important thoughts on the factors that impact the degree progress of international PhD students from Africa, while at the same time revealing a serious gap in the advisers' role which can contribute to the problems experience during the study progress of doctoral students.

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Factors Influencing the Degree Progress of International PhD Students from Africa: An Exploratory Study

Soumana¹,

Uddin²

2017

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“…These categories are composed of several items or subsets to identify the problems among students (Al-Zubaidi, 2009;Lebcir, 2008). Based on Sandhu (1994) two categories including Intrapersonal and interpersonal factors affect international students.…”

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Challenges Faced by International Students in China

Jiyagatai¹

2018

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and finance which had been selected based on multi sampling. During the study abroad by international students adjustment problems experienced by doctorate, post graduate, undergraduate students in Inner Mongolia Province China. Mooney Problem Check List (MPCL) was used to recognize the categories of problems among international students in China. This research survey consists of 11 categories of problems. The categories included health, finances, lifestyle and career, social and recreational, psychological social relation, personal relationships and emotional problems, marriage and sexual, family, moral and religious, adapting to academic work, future career adapting, curriculum and method of teaching problems. Suggestions and recommendations were also collected through interviews. Data collected were analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). Pareto Principle was used to identify the most disturbing items in each category of problems. The Major finding of this research shows that the most disturbing categories of problems among international students at China, Inner Mongolia province are social and recreational problems and curriculum and method of teaching problems.

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“…A good learning process is assumed to produce a better academic performance (Lebcir, Wells, and Bond, 2008). One study that supports this argument is the study of Lan and Li (2003), which suggests an alternative learning process as an effort to improve student academic performance.…”

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“…This performance can be achieved, if it is supported by qualified education system and effective learning process (Lebcir, Wells, and Bond, 2008;Lasso, 2008). Related to the moods, improved performance has been observed in subjects in a positive mood when a task requires either elaboration of the given data (Abele, Gendolla, and Petzold, 1998), decision-making (Isen and Labroo, 2003), logical thinking (Abele, 1995), problem solving (Isen, Rosenzweig, and Young, 1991), or broadening the scope of attention (Fredrickson and Branigan, 2005).…”

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University Students’ Emotion State and Academic Performance: New Insights of Managing Complex Cognitive

Febrilia¹,

Warokka²,

Abdullah³

2011

JELHE

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A potentially important but relatively unexplored factor in explaining human capital accumulation during college is mental state (health) problems. Recent empirical findings reveal the impact of mental state, i.e. positive mood, on the performance of the students in processing information. This kind of mental state facilitates cognitive process that leads to better learning performance and satisfaction. Positive mood facilitates complex cognitive functions requiring flexibility, integration, and utilization of cognitive material such as memory, categorization, creative problem solving, decision-making and learning. Little empirical research on students' emotions and their effect on learning and academic performance is available that could guide the design of learning environments. This study extends the literature that has been done mostly in western societies by proposing a further linkage between positive and negative mood to students' learning and the impact of that learning on student's academic performance in Indonesian universities, which is rarely investigated in non-western societies. The data were collected by using questionnaires and a sample of 106 students who have mid-term examination (assessment) in their active academic semester. The result, based on analysis using structural equation modeling, indicates that the tested model has an acceptable 4it. The 4indings also indicate that (1) positive mood has no in4luence on learning, (2) negative mood has negative in4luence on learning, and (3) learning has positive influence on student's academic performance.

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Factors affecting academic performance of international students in project management courses: A case study from a British Post 92 University

Cited by 51 publications

References 19 publications

Factors Influencing the Degree Progress of International PhD Students from Africa: An Exploratory Study

Factors Influencing the Degree Progress of International PhD Students from Africa: An Exploratory Study

Challenges Faced by International Students in China

University Students’ Emotion State and Academic Performance: New Insights of Managing Complex Cognitive

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