Abstract—In recent years, there is a tremendous increasing
among international students to study in Chinese universities,
where who may experience considerable difficulties and
challenges, particularly during the first-year study. However,
there is still incipient research in this area. Thus, it is high time
to explore the factors that might affect the international
students’ learning performances and outcomes of Mathematics
courses. The investigation is based on a sample of 140
undergraduate students from different disciplines at Zhejiang
University of Science and Technology. The finding constitutes a
range of contributory factors which affect their adaptions and
opens new paths for future research on the international
education.
Index Terms—Mathematic courses, international student,
first-year.
Humphrey Manhamo and Shuhui Wu are with School of Science,
Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, 318 Liuhe Road, Hangzhou,
Zhejiang, China (e-mail: manhamoh@hotmail.com, s.wu@zust.edu.cn).
Atsou Komla Herve Agbemenou is with School of Humanities and
International Education, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology,
318 Liuhe Road, Hangzhou, China, 310023, (e-mail: hevrardo@gmail.com).
Jianhua Wei is with International Student Affairs Center, Zhejiang
University of Science and Technology, 318 Liuhe Road, Hangzhou,
Zhejiang, China, 310023 (e-mail: weijianhua@zust.edu.cn).
Cite: Humphrey Manhamo, Atsou Komla Herve Agbemenou, Shuhui Wu, and Jianhua Wei, "Factors Affecting the International Students Success in a First-Year Mathematics Courses at ZUST," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 520-524, 2018.