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'Not What I Thought!' Information Seeking Behaviors of International Students During the Application for Graduate Study in the USA

机译：“不是我想的！”在美国研究生申请期间的国际学生行为的信息

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A recent study revealed that international students' reading comprehension scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) equates to 12th-grade reading comprehension level (Taylor, 2017). In evaluating the admission materials at selected flagship universities in the United States, Taylor (2017) found that the reading comprehension level ranges from 15th-grade to 19th-grade level. The readability of these materials can be challenging to international graduate students. Though a large body of literature exists about international graduate students in the United States, scant work has explored international doctoral students' information seeking behaviors and experiences while applying for doctoral study. We report the results of a study that explored the behaviors and experiences of 14 international doctoral students studying at a flagship university in the United States. Using in-depth interviews, we found that the students used two types of resources, experiential (EXR) and authorized (AUR), and began looking for information by exploring the former. We identified three common themes of their information seeking behaviors and problems they experienced in using official websites. The findings have implications for improving the design of websites to support international students' information seeking and needs.
机译：最近的一项研究表明，国际学生阅读了英语考验的理解得分作为外语（托福）等同于12年级阅读理解水平（泰勒，2017年）。在评估美国所选旗舰大学的入学材料时，泰勒（2017）发现阅读理解级别从15年级到19年级。这些材料的可读性可能对国际研究生有挑战性。虽然在美国国际研究生存在大量的文学中，但散发的工作已经探索了国际博士生在申请博士研究的同时寻求行为和经验。我们举报了一项研究结果，探讨了14名在美国旗舰大学学习的14名国际博士生的行为和经验。使用深入的访谈，我们发现学生使用两种类型的资源，体验（EXR）和授权（AUR），并开始通过探索前者寻找信息。我们确定了他们在使用官方网站遇到的行为和问题的信息的三个共同主题。该研究结果对改善网站设计来支持国际学生寻求和需求的影响。

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