The Impact of Expectations on Chinese Students’ Transition to a Canadian University
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to research the impact of expectations held by Chinese students themselves and by third persons, such as their parents, instructors, and peers, on Chinese students’ holistic experiences during their transition into a Canadian university. This important transitional period provides participants with opportunities for more diverse experiences as they navigate the three-fold transition: moving from China to a linguistically and culturally different country like Canada, going through a major life change from high school to university, and from adolescence to adulthood, a dynamic period of both physical and psychological development. This study used narrative inquiry as the research methodology to highlight students’ own invoices through the exploration of two sides of the expectations and how these expectations in turn shape their holistic experiences in a Canadian university. The research utilized the theories of transition and intercultural adaptation as frameworks to examine how all the internal and external factors in both their home and host countries contribute to Chinese students’ transition. Key findings from this study revealed that, shaped by their own expectations and those held by third persons, these Chinese students encountered both challenges and opportunities for development in their transition to the Canadian university. Much as they share commonalities, these students are not a monolithic group; rather they each have their unique personality, expectations, and aspirations. Remaining open to new ideas, lifestyles, and ideologies while maintaining inherited values of effort and self-determination, these participants have taken up transcultural identities that offer them the affordance to explore and function comfortably in different worlds. This study also sheds light on how the entire higher education practice can work together to make joint efforts for international students’ success by involving them both socially and academically instead of viewing them through a deficit lens.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".