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Visiting Professor Javier Montero from Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)conducted an evaluation on this project during his visit to UTS in Sep. 2009.Visiting Professor Xiaowei Yang from South China University of TechnologyGuangzhou, P.R. China conducted an evaluation of this project during his visit toUTS in Sep. and Oct. 2009.Dr. Tiefeng Zhang has reviewed this project report and written an evaluation reportduring his visit to UTS in Nov. 2009Dr. Ruijun Zhang has reviewed this project report and written an evaluation reportduring his visit to UTS in Nov. 2009.• Evaluated by studentsWe showed the guidelines to some international students for their feedback andcomments.• Evaluated by colleaguesWe showed the guidelines to some of our colleagues for their feedback andcomments.10.4 Success factor analysisAnalysis of the factors that were critical to the success of the project:1) All team members of the project have experience of international students in theirclasses and also of being international students themselves during their study atAustralian universities.2) The involvement of multiple institutes across five Australian universities and across ITand business fields has provided a more complete picture to the issues faced byinternational students studying in Australia.3) The project collected data from a large number of participants, with more than athousand valid survey responses and over 50 interviews. This large amount of dataprovided us with a very rich insight to the problems investigated.4) Different types of participants were involved in the project - international students,local students, lecturers and graduates. This has enabled us to capture all views on theissues.5) Two constrasting yet complementary data collection methods - survey and interview -were employed in this project to ensure both quantitative and qualitative data werecollected.6) By drawing conclusions from both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the data,we were able to ascertain the validity of our study.7) Student participants came from different study years and were majoring in differentareas. This helped to reduce bias in the data collected. At the same time, there was a152