Learning diversity in higher education: A comparative study of Asian international and Australian students

By Prem Ramburuth, John McCormick. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Critical thinking in a second language (2011, methodology): “A later survey (Ramburuth & McCormick, 2001), using the Biggs questionnaire as well as other measuring devices, found no evidence that Asian students have a more surface approach to learning.”
• The impact of student experiences with diversity on developing graduate attributes (2010, neutral): “Burns 1991 ; Mullins, Quintrell, and Hancock 1995 ; Ramburuth and McCormick 2001 ).”
• Cultural Determinants of Learning Style Preferences (2010, background): “While these studies have used various conceptualizations of learning styles (see, e.g., Jackson, 1995; Manikutty, Anuradha, & Hansen, 2007; Ramburuth & McCormick, 2001; Yamazaki & Kayes, 2004; You & Jia, 2008), the majority of investigations into how learning style preferences vary with…”
• Re-examining the “Chinese learner”: a case study of mainland Chinese students’ learning experiences at British Universities (2015, background): “Furthermore, both qualitative and quantitative evidence suggests that besides cultural factors, personal, psychological, and pedagogical factors are equally important in influencing students’ learning (Ramburuth and McCormick 2001; Rastall 2006).”
• Is the learning approach of students from the Confucian heritage culture problematic? (2013, neutral): “parents, elders and teachers (Ramburuth and McCormick 2001).”
• Challenges Facing Asian International Graduate Students in the US: Pedagogical Considerations in Higher Education. (2014, background): “Studies suggest that the employment of this type of group learning is highly influenced by the Confucian cultural values that focus on group work (Gatfield & Gatfield, 1994; Ramburuth & McCormic, 2001; Tang, 1996).”
• General Academic Difficulties and Reading and Writing Difficulties among Asian ESL Postgraduate Students in TESOL at an Australian University (2011, background): “A few studies have begun to explore Asian international students’ academic difficulty and adjustment (e.g. Burns, 1991; Pamburuth and Mccormick, 2001; Wang and Shan, 2007).”
• Culture-Aware Collaborative Learning. (2008, background): “, 1999; Freedman and Liu, 1996; Hannon and D’Netto, 2007), learning styles (Kim and Bonk, 2002; Ramburuth and McCormick, 2001; Teng, 2007), computer usage in education (Freedman and Liu, 1996; Hannon and D’Netto, 2007; Volman et al.”
• Exploring the impact of cultural values on project performance: The effects of cultural values, age and gender on the perceived importance of project success/failure factors (2014, background): “There is plenty of evidence from pedagogical studies to suggest that people of different cultures tend to have different preferred learning styles (Ramburuth and Mccormick, 2001).”
• International and Local Student Satisfaction: Resources and Capabilities Perspective (2004, result): “The recent research of Ramburuth and McCormick (Ramburuth and McCormick 2001) suggests that there is no significant difference in approaches to learning among Asian students and Australians, but supports previous studies that have shown learning diversity to be associated with socio-cultural and…”