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VII. OtherVII.1.1VII.1.2What are the main study difficulties you encountered atuniversity? In my 1st YearWhat are the main study difficulties you encountered atuniversity? In my 2nd/ 3rd /4th Year0 Dependent 0.3430.007 Dependent 0.282VII.2 Do you feel any culture shock which influences your study? 0 Dependent 0.3464.2.4 Correlation analysis for business studentsThe summarised output results of correlation analysis on responses from allstudents who were majoring in Business are shown in Table 62 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 62 Correlations analysis results of business studentsQuestionNo Questions P-value NotePhivalueII Teaching contents and textbooksII.1II.2Which of the following best describes the textbooksyou are using (and have used) in your study? 0.129 IndependentIn what proportion of current and past subjects studieddo you use a textbook? 0 Dependent 0.213II.3 If you chose D in question 2, what is the main reason? 0.176 IndependentII.4 What difficulties do you have reading your textbooks? 0 Dependent 0.489II.5 On average, what do you read in your textbooks? 0 Dependent 0.183II.6.A Textbooks you prefer: emphasise theories 0.005 Dependent 0.167II.6.B Textbooks you prefer: introduce novel ideas 0.262 IndependentII.6.C Textbooks you prefer: encourage students to think 0.264 IndependentII.6.DII.6.ETextbooks you prefer: give many examples to helpwith exercises and assignments 0.065 IndependentTextbooks you prefer: provide up-to-date knowledgeand techniques 0.454 IndependentII.6.FTextbooks you prefer: provide many case studies tohelp understand applications/techniques/skills 0.898 Independent60