Programme for International Student Assessment

novel, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, Ripley captures students’ personal stories from different and diverse parts of the world, learning much about their backgrounds and experiences. Even when studying the statistically smartest countries, Ripley strictly focuses on the Program on International Student Assessment Test (PISA). PISA a test that is based more on life skills rather than standardized tests that are based on academic skills. Following the students, Ripley explains the experiences of each person going to schools in different countries to discover why the United State’s scores were so low in reading, math, and science. The first student Ripley followed was Kim. Kim was a student from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, very strong in mathematics and has always sought interest in going to a different country to explore the education system. The next student was Eric; a small town Midwestern boy from Minnesota aspiring to go to Korea and learn about the private school system and the high expectations. The…

The ideal dream of all the admission counselors who decide on who to accept to their university and who does not is to create a diverse and unified community. Nonetheless, not all the international students like the idea of mingling with domestic students. There is no explanation to such fact, but it happens and it seems as if no one is ready or simply does not care to talk about it. However, I want to talk about it, an international student, named Chengcheng Xiang ’18, has her own thoughts on…

has done a remarkable job. Student mobility, as one of the components of the internationalization process, places the United States prevails as the top destination for international students, especially from East Asian students. Each year, the number of students from East Asian countries keeps rising (Institute of International Education, 2015), for this reason, I decided to conduct a qualitative research study to understand the reasons that motivate international students from East Asia to…

different cultural backgrounds and walks of life. These are the international students. This is an ever growing subset of those attending an American university, making up almost 820,000 students across all colleges and universities in this country in the 2012-13 academic year (Institute of International Education). Even though the number of international students is growing consistently over the past couple of years, there is still hostility and an exclusiveness towards this diverse group of…

The UK has been a popular destination for International students to opt for higher education, as a result 435,495 international students were enrolled in the academic year 2013-2014 (UK Council for International student Affairs [UKCISA], 2015).Leaving the home country for quality education could build a number of challenges. This essay will, therefore, address some of the challenges faced by International students in the UK and to provide solutions for it. There are many initial challenges a…

With the growing number of incoming Chinese international students on campus in the past five years, language barrier stands as a major challenge. 300 out of 1700 undergraduate international students at Stony Brook University are from Chinese speaking country according to the International admission office, language barrier is the first challenge for them when they step on campus. Mariana Catalano, a 10 years coordinator of the undergraduate English as Second Language Program (ESL) at Stony…

building a wall to separate the United States from Mexico. One issue that Donald Trump wants to address is the visa system used by international students and their work privileges. Trump wants to reform the process of giving out green cards, he wants to put a hold on that process so that employers will hire domestically first. Also he wants to modify the H-1B visa so its requirements line up with the idea of ending warfare abuse, terminate…

Exploration of Topic. The topic of the research is based around the concept of cultural adjustment process, how international students cope with it and integrates into the American society. The importance of this topic is very well understood in USA. Students from all over the world come to USA to get higher education and all of them go through this process of cultural adjustment in many different ways. This makes cultural adjustment a very significant subject of studies here. Hence,…

Classroom Life in the U.S. Universities “The more I spoke with international students, the more I noticed familiar refrains that both educated me and reminded me about my own U.S. and academic culture” (Nathan 67). An anthropologist, Rebekah Nathan went undercover – she goes back to school as a freshman at her own university to see the campus through student eyes. This decision was made as she wanted to analyze and examine the campus life fairly instead of having the often professor-student…

International students social life and making friends on campuses In Nathan’s article, my freshman year, she keeps her primary focus on how international students interact with American students and the distinctive type of relationships that they build. It is quite strange to international students from Japan, Germany, Korea, England, and China that Nathan has interviewed about how non-committed American students are to the international students because Americans students do not…