Skill Development of Undergraduate Students through International Exchange Program
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Tarih
2022
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Richtmann Publishing Ltd
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
The international exchange program plays an important role in improving soft skills and helps graduates' to be confident to compete in job market. Student can achieve a vast academic knowledge apart from extracurricular and co-curricular skills through attending exchange program. Therefore, this paper aims at studying the development of students acquired soft skills and the barriers they face to achieve the goal through the exchange program. The data obtained from 87 students who participated in exchange program in different countries of Asia. Besides descriptive statistics, factor analysis was performed to identify the achieved soft skills through exchange program. This study reveals that, a large number of students were attending in exchange program at their own cost and most of the students were from the year 3. Indubitably, Exchange program helps to improve students' soft skill such as; communication skill, team building ability, adaptability with situation. Moreover, lectures delivered to the students were found interesting. Results of the study are expected to motivate students attending in international exchange program and will offer a right direction to the students to get an expected outcome. © 2022 Hossain et al.
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Collaboration; Exchange Program; Factor Analysis; Soft Skills
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Journal of Educational and Social Research
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Q3
Cilt
12
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2
