Study abroad is a term long program, usually run by a university, that allows students to live in a foreign country and attend a foreign university. The number of US students participating in Study Abroad programs has grown between 1997 and 2007, the number of participants grew from under 100,000 to 250,000. Participants of study abroad programs continued its growth in 2011-2012 grew to 283,332. By following this trend in the amount of participants is expected to increase and the Institute for International Education Generation Study Abroad, established in 2014, has predicted the number to be 600,000 by the 2017- 2018 academic year. The purpose of this Literature review is to signal to the reader how study abroad is beneficial to all college
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The following journals’ data findings are based off the Global Perspective Inventory scale of cognitive knowing. This scale is used to find the mean scores of student responses from the questionnaire to calculate which questions get the highest mean vote. In Student Motivation to Study Abroad and Their Intercultural Development, Philip Anderson illustrates what prompts certain students to study abroad. The student participants are all a part of the American Institute for Foreign Study programs and the study was conducted over the course of two years. The students are asked questions pre and post study abroad about the following motivations to go abroad: World Enlightenment, Personal Growth, Career Development, and Entertainment. Comparing pre and post scores for all of the mean scores shows the highest increase is in the Personal Growth category. In the study the students reflected on study abroad and said they were always problem solving by navigating a new city, learning a new language and meeting new people. When signing up for this program the students are interested in challenging their previous beliefs and willing to learn about a new culture. In conclusion,students of the survey say that study abroad helped them with personal growth because they were forced to be challenged. In the The Effects of Studying Abroad and Studying Sustainability on Students’ Global …show more content…
The next two journals specifically discuss majors that do not get the opportunity to study abroad and they are making a case for why these majors should have more study abroad opportunities. In Long-Term Impacts of Short-Term Study Abroad: Teacher Perceptions of Preservice Study Abroad Experiences by James Shiveley he states that many aspiring teachers would benefit from studying abroad. He points out that nationwide education programs increase the focus on world competency so that teachers can better educate their students. This hefty curriculum does not make it easy to study abroad, but the participants for this study are 50 education majors who did study abroad. They answered a broad questionnaire about how they believed study abroad personally affected them. The results found that many students believed the abroad experience affected their teaching and also affected them personally. One of the respondents answered that every job she applied for she got because she studied abroad. The teacher said that it helped her career because schools
The following journals’ data findings are based off the Global Perspective Inventory scale of cognitive knowing. This scale is used to find the mean scores of student responses from the questionnaire to calculate which questions get the highest mean vote. In Student Motivation to Study Abroad and Their Intercultural Development, Philip Anderson illustrates what prompts certain students to study abroad. The student participants are all a part of the American Institute for Foreign Study programs and the study was conducted over the course of two years. The students are asked questions pre and post study abroad about the following motivations to go abroad: World Enlightenment, Personal Growth, Career Development, and Entertainment. Comparing pre and post scores for all of the mean scores shows the highest increase is in the Personal Growth category. In the study the students reflected on study abroad and said they were always problem solving by navigating a new city, learning a new language and meeting new people. When signing up for this program the students are interested in challenging their previous beliefs and willing to learn about a new culture. In conclusion,students of the survey say that study abroad helped them with personal growth because they were forced to be challenged. In the The Effects of Studying Abroad and Studying Sustainability on Students’ Global …show more content…
The next two journals specifically discuss majors that do not get the opportunity to study abroad and they are making a case for why these majors should have more study abroad opportunities. In Long-Term Impacts of Short-Term Study Abroad: Teacher Perceptions of Preservice Study Abroad Experiences by James Shiveley he states that many aspiring teachers would benefit from studying abroad. He points out that nationwide education programs increase the focus on world competency so that teachers can better educate their students. This hefty curriculum does not make it easy to study abroad, but the participants for this study are 50 education majors who did study abroad. They answered a broad questionnaire about how they believed study abroad personally affected them. The results found that many students believed the abroad experience affected their teaching and also affected them personally. One of the respondents answered that every job she applied for she got because she studied abroad. The teacher said that it helped her career because schools