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This chapter provides an overview of the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey methodology. Included are a discussion of sampling, data collection, and response rates; a detailed exposition of the survey items related to internationalization; and an analysis of data quality (including item nonresponse) organized both by item and country. The chapter provides a nuanced overview of the quality of the data upon which the remaining chapters are based.
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Such differences may, of course, reflect differences between historical generations in their values and perceptions quite beyond any differences in actual descriptive conditions.
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The text of the 14 questions referring to international issues from which the 37 variables are derived is provided in Appendix A with the full text of the CAP International Master Questionnaire.
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As will be discussed, teaching abroad is considered more an indicator of the internationalization of teaching than an indicator of academic mobility.
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The Carnegie study provided information on the proportions of academic staff who had their highest degree from another country (Welch 1997); as the CAP Survey provides this information as well, we can say that there is a fourth item of the Carnegie questionnaire that has been replicated in the CAP study.
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Reflected historically in the nine-step classification of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the myriad missions of institutions carrying the label of university in the United States as compared to the much clearer and more singular meaning of the term university in most other national systems.
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These variables provide information on whether the country in which the respondent earned his or her first degree, second degree, and doctoral degree is the country of current employment, the country of postdoctoral degree, teaching abroad, teaching in an language different from the language of instruction at current institution, the emphasis on international perspectives or content in academics’ courses, the increase in the number of international students, and the current proportion of international graduate students.
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This is the case of Malaysia for information on whether the country in which respondent earned his or her postdoctoral degree is the country of current employment (19.5 % of no answers), the case of South Africa for information on country of first degree (17.1 %), country of second degree (80.5 %), and country of doctoral degree (47.1 %).
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Rostan, M., Finkelstein, M., Huang, F. (2014). Concepts and Methods. In: Huang, F., Finkelstein, M., Rostan, M. (eds) The Internationalization of the Academy. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7278-6_2
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