| Scope of Study. This study provides a descriptive study of factors associated with academic performance of Southeast Asian graduate students who had completed a minimum of nine semester hours of course work at Oklahoma State University during 1982-83 academic year. The study also investigated the differences in the academic performance of the students who had some previous educational experience in a U.S. college or university, and of those who had never been admitted to any other degree program in a U.S. college or university before enrolling in the current degree program at the time of investigation. The specific objective in this part of the study was to analyze the differences in the academic performance among the two groups of students when certain selected variables were taken into account. The selected variables include: age, sex, marital status, major field of study, financial resource, type of living accommodation, and English language training experience in the United States.; Findings and Conclusions. The ANOVA: Analysis of Variance was the statistical procedure used to analyze the data. Results of the analysis indicated that the effects of the previous U.S. educational experience alone did not significantly affect the academic performance of the students. There was a significant difference when the grade point averages were compared on the basis of previous U.S. educational experience and classified by sex and major field of study. No significant effect was found in the academic performance of the students when studied under the following variables: age, marital status, type of living accommodation, type of financial resource, and English language training experience in the United States. |
