Ku, Nai-Kuang See all items with this value

2003

4

237-248

1530-4108 See all items with this value

This study examines how East Asian students think about their cultural influences on their academic performance and how East Asian students estimate their own capability for managing their academic study. The purpose of this study is to account for Asian graduate students’ self-appraisal capabilities in the learning process in higher education as a function of the influence of cultural dynamic. The subjects are a group of six Taiwanese students who currently enrolled in graduate programs of a university in Southern California and research method applied is a single case study. Though the study does not examine all details of the impact of Buddhist wisdom and values on this cultural dynamic, it is borne in mind that Buddhism had an overriding influence on all six students. Data collection and analysis investigate how subjects shape and reflect their cultural and self-efficacy belief about learning and how they justified those beliefs in learning experiences. This study is designed to provide educators in higher education the understanding of how Asian foreign students are motivated and to offer suggestions to empower students’ learning and promote self-appraisal beliefs. The study also indicates that the role of Buddhist wisdom and values on East Asian students’ attitude to learning deserves an in-depth study.