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VI.8Do you think the final mark/grade reflects students’achievement in this subject? 0.085 IndependentVI.9 Do you often argue with lecturers for grades? 0.002 Dependent 0.120VI.10Do you like to work with students from the samebackground as you in assignments? 0.265 IndependentVI.11Have you taken part in any university and communityactivities that are not fully related to your course? 0.307 IndependentVII. OtherVII.1.1What are the main study difficulties you encounteredat university? In my 1st Year 0 Dependent 0.356VII.1.2VII.2What are the main study difficulties you encounteredat university? In my 2nd/ 3rd /4th Year 0 Dependent 0.273Do you feel any culture shock which influences yourstudy? 0 Dependent 0.3084.2.3 Correlation analysis for IT studentsThe summarised output results of the correlation analysis on responses from allstudents who were majoring in IT are shown in Table 61 below. In this table,questions with test results that yielded a p-value of 0.05 or below are deemedsignificant and are marked as “dependent”, which means the responses to thesequestions from the two categories (local and international students) weresignificantly different in pattern. These results will be further explained in section 6“Findings”.Table 61 Correlation analysis results of IT studentsQuestionQuestions P-value Note PhiNoII Teaching contents and textbooksII.1II.2Which of the following best describes the textbooks you areusing (and have used) in your study?In what proportion of current and past subjects studied doyou use a textbook?0.078 Independent0.261 IndependentII.3 If you chose D in question 2, what is the main reason? 0.095 IndependentII.4 What difficulties do you have reading your textbooks? 0 Dependent 0.392II.5 On average, what do you read in your textbooks? 0 Dependent 0.282II.6.A Textbooks you prefer: emphasise theories 0.29 IndependentII.6.B Textbooks you prefer: introduce novel ideas 0.25 IndependentII.6.C Textbooks you prefer: encourage students to think 0.099 IndependentII.6.DTextbooks you prefer: give many examples to help withexercises and assignments0.364 Independent57