Development and evaluation of the Measure of the International Learning Environment Status (MILES) in international higher education.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate an instrument to assess international students' perceptions of the international learning environment called 'Measure of the International Learning Environment Status' (MILES). We based the development of the MILES on a solid theoretical framework from Moos by addressing three domains to measure the quality of the international learning environment, namely goal direction, relationships, and system change and system maintenance. We have designed and constructed the instrument in three steps. Firstly, we have collected items from relevant existing instruments and grouped them into the three domains via content analysis. Secondly, we applied a Delphi procedure involving international higher education experts from different stakeholder groups a

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10434870 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature