Female Brazillian students' experiences at Canadian post-secondary institutions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This qualitative study investigated the experiences of Female Brazilian international \nstudents studying in Canadian post-secondary institutions. While funds and research have been \ninvested in the promotion and marketing of post-secondary institutions to Brazilian international \nstudents, little or no research has been conducted regarding the cultural accommodations and \nneeds once they attend these institutions. This phenomenological study examines the experiences \nof eleven female Brazilian international students between the ages of 26 and 43 who had \npreviously completed post-secondary education in their own country. Eleven unstructured \ninterviews, yielded six themes from a grounded theory analysis process: (a) the Competitiveness \nof the Immigration Process; (b) the Adjustment to Living in Canada; (c) the Challenges of \nStudying in Canada; (d) Financial Issues; (e) Employment in Canada; and (f) Personal \nWellbeing. The overall benefits and challenges of studying in Canadian post-secondary \ninstitutions are presented and recommendations are made describing specific ways in which \ninstitutions can adapt policies and programs in order to enhance international students? transition \nto Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".