Domestic And International Asian Students - 1039 Words

Table 3 shows that no significant difference was observed between the overall scores of adjustment in domestic and international Asian students. This finding is different from previous studies that showed East Asian students to have difficulty understanding the academic content resulting in poor adjustment success (Lee, Farruggia, Brown, 2013). To test our main hypothesis, JASP was used to generate data through descriptive statistics, ANOVA and further post hoc analyses. Initially, we generated descriptive statistics to show the raw means. Table 4 displays this descriptive data indicating that international students performed better than domestic students on university adjustment (M = 34.60, SD = 2.60) and social interaction (M = 15.20,†¦show more content†¦To test the second hypothesis, further sampled t-test comparisons were conducted. Table 3 shows a strong significance between the different categories of adjustment, F(2, 81) = 197.09, p .001, ÃŽ ·Ã‚ ² = .813; however, the significance was ambiguous. To see where the difference happened, we conducted t test comparisons. When comparing local university adjustment with international university adjustment (t[4] = -1.990, p .05, d = -.890), local social interaction with international social interaction (t[4] = -0.732, p .05, d = -.328) and local academic achievement with international academic achievement (t[4] = .793, p .05, d = -.355)—no significance was found. In addition, the significant values were found when academic achievement was compared with university adjustment in domestic and international students. This was a potential error of key score differences between the categories (Table 2). Table 5 provides the complete list of all the comparisons and displays where the results showed significance. Through this statistical analysis, our second hypothesis failed to be true as well. Interestingly, an interaction was found to be significant for social interaction and academic achievement. Figure 2 provides a visual representation of this result. Discussion The purpose of this study was to find the underlying differences between international and domestic students. We used Asian students specifically for data to see whether they differ from one another depending on their