Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu F Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

difficulty • Academic expectations • Learning styles • Assignment deadline • Attendance to class and meeting • Plagiarism, ChatGPT, copying from each other, using a material with a proper or no citation.Some of the challenges faced by students from India are surprising to us because many may notthink that those students may have such challenges in the areas below. • Cultural Adjustment: Many believe India is very close to Western countries because of its unique history over the last 100 years. But we still find that many students adapt to a new culture, lifestyle, and social norms after they arrive in the U.S. Like other international students, they may still experience culture shock, homesickness, and

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xinfeng Quan, Westlake University; Jing Wang

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

were reviewed using ChatGPT 4o as asupplementary tool. When minor discrepancies were identified, the first author revised theChinese translation and discussed the changes with the colleagues until all disagreementswere resolved.In addition to the original EBAPS items, four additional questions, shown in Table 4, wereincluded to explore students’ cognitive patterns under the influence of naïve dialecticism[17].The first two items regarding attitudes toward contradictions were adapted from theDialectical Self Scale[19], an instrument designed to measure dialectical thinking. The othertwo items were created by one of the authors to represent the remaining key components ofnaïve dialecticism: the “Principle of Relationship or Holism” (item iii