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Lin, Teng; Lei, Jun – SAGE Open, 2021
English-medium instruction (EMI) has become increasingly popular in higher educational institutions across the world due to the prominence of English and the internationalization of higher education. Nevertheless, limited research to date has investigated its impacts on content learning through objective measures. The present study addresses this…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Chinese, Performance Factors
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Cheng, Louis T. W.; Armatas, Christine A.; Wang, Jacqueline W. – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2021
In this paper, we report on the analysis of data collected from 684 students majoring in Accounting and Finance, to examine the relationship between academic outcomes and Work-integrated Education (WIE) and International Study Exchange (ISE) experiences. Both WIE and ISE are common elements of undergraduate business education because of the…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, International Educational Exchange, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students)
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Chen, Qihui; Tian, Guoqiang; Okediji, Tade O. – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
The authors of this article implement a quasi-experimental strategy to estimate peer effects in economic education by exploiting the institutional setting in a large public university in China, where roommates are randomly assigned conditional on a student's major and province of origin. They found significant impacts of peer academic quality,…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Evidence, Economics Education, Peer Influence
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Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The main controversy as a result of the commercialisation of international education markets is that international students especially those from China are unable to perform as well as UK students in UK universities. So far, research has yet to identify the influence of placements on the academic performance of Chinese students from entry to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Job Placement