Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education

Canada-European Community Program for Co-operation in Higher Education and Training

Survey of Exchange Students / Post-Exchange Feedback

This questionnaire relates to the international academic exchange you have been participating in.

You can help us ensure that this program is meeting its goals and objectives by responding to this questionnaire. The information you and your fellow exchange students provide will allow us to highlight to the public and to policy makers the relevance and success of this particular exchange project. It will also contribute to our assessment of international mobility projects collectively and international education generally. As a student who benefits from this program, your input is vital. We want to improve the program in order to maximize results, to ensure its relevance and to positively impact students.

We would appreciate it if you would complete and return the entire questionnaire to the address below as soon as possible, now that you are back from your international experience. The information requested in this questionnaire, and the one we may have asked you to complete before you left on the exchange, will remain confidential and will only be used for statistical research purposes. We are not asking for any identifying information such as Social Insurance Number or name, but the last section does have some more personal questions to allow us to compile a profile of the exchange student population as a whole.

Thank you in advance for your co-operation and we wish you every success during the remaining part of your studies in Canada.

Where to send your questionnaire, once completed:

International Academic Mobility Initiative

Learning Strategies and Support Division

Learning and Literacy Directorate

Human Resources Development Canada

140 Promenade du Portage

Place du Portage, Phase IV

Hull, Québec

K1A 0J9

PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY

  1. Title of project under which the exchange has taken place: (if you do not know, please ask your institution)
  1. Calendar year in which the exchange has taken place:

Section 1 – Background Information on the Exchange

  1. In which province/territory is your university or college located?

NewfoundlandSaskatchewan

Prince Edward IslandAlberta

Nova ScotiaBritish Columbia

New BrunswickYukon

QuébecNorthwest Territories

OntarioNunavut

Manitoba

  1. Name of your institution in Canada:
  1. Is this a university or college?

( )University

( )College

( ) UniversityCollege

( ) Other

  1. What is (are) your field(s) / discipline(s) of study?
  1. What is the province/territory of your permanent residence?

NewfoundlandSaskatchewan

Prince Edward IslandAlberta

Nova ScotiaBritish Columbia

New BrunswickYukon

QuébecNorthwest Territories

OntarioNunavut

Manitoba

  1. Age

( ) Under 18

( )18 – 21

( )22 – 24

( )Above 24

  1. Are you a Canadian Citizen or a Landed Immigrant?

( )Canadian Citizen

( )Landed Immigrant

  1. What is your family's annual income?

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Below $20,000

$20,001 / $35,000

$35,001 / $50,000

$50,001 / $75,000

$75,001 / $100,000

above $100,000

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  1. Are you in receipt of a student loan under the Canada (or provincial) Student Loan Program?

( )Yes

( )No

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  1. Name of the institution you have been attending during the exchange abroad:
  1. Country of exchange:

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Mexico

United States

France

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

Italy

Greece

Austria

Netherlands

Finland

Denmark

Sweden

Belgium

Ireland

Luxembourg

Portugal

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Section 2 – Language

  1. What is your language of study at your current institution?

( )English

( )French

( )Both English and French

  1. In what language have you studied during the exchange?

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( )English

( )French

( )Spanish

( )German

( )Italian

( )Greek

( )Dutch/Flemish

( )Finish

( )Danish

( )Swedish

( )Portuguese

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  1. How fluent would you say you are now in the language you have been using in your studies during the exchange? Please use a scale of 1 to 10 where “1” means “not at all fluent” and “10” means “fully fluent”.

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  1. Did you receive language training in the context of your exchange?

( )Yes(go to question #18)

( )No(skip to question # 19)

  1. How fluent would you say you wereprior to language training in the language you used in your studies during the exchange? Please use a scale of 1 to 10 where “1” means “not at all fluent” and “10” means “fully fluent”.

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Section 3 – Culture

  1. How familiar would you say you are now with the cultural aspects of the country you went to? Please use a scale of 1 to 10 where “1” means “not at all familiar” and “10” means “very familiar”.

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  1. Did you receive cultural training in the context of your exchange?

( )Yes(go to question 21)

( )No(skip to question 22)

  1. How familiar would you say you were prior to cultural training with the cultural aspects of the country you went to? Please use a scale of 1 to 10 where “1” means “not at all familiar” and “10” means “very familiar”.

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Section 4 - Other Support

  1. What type of support, other than language or cultural training, did you receive in the context of your exchange? (Check as many as apply.)

( )finding lodging

( )making travel arrangements

( )linking up with students at host institution

( )obtaining visas/work permits

( )meeting with officials at the host country's CanadianEmbassy

( )other, please specify:

( )no other support

  1. Overall, how satisfied are you with the support received in preparation for the exchange? Please use a scale of 1 to 10 where “1” means “not at all satisfied” and “10” means “very satisfied”.

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Section 5 – Educational Experience
  1. Did you receive as many credits in your study abroad as you would have at your own institution?

( )Yes(Skip to question 26)

( )No(Go to question 25)

  1. If you responded (no) to question 24, why not?
  1. From an academic perspective, what skills or knowledge did you acquire on this exchange that you would never have acquired to the same degree had you stayed in Canada? (Check as many as apply.)

( )Problem solving

( )Critical thinking

( )Networking

( )Use or application of new technology

( )Self-confidence

( )Openness

( )Tolerance

( )Patience

( )Acceptance

( )Sensitivity

( )Ability to work in a multicultural Environment

( )Listening skills

( )Ability to communicate in a new language

( )Inter-cultural understanding

( )Initiative

( )Leadership

( )Entrepreneurship

( )Other, please specify:

( )No skills acquired to a specific degree while abroad

Section 6 – Work Placements

  1. What type of work placement did you participate in during your exchange?

( )With business

( )With labour

( )With government

( )With non-governmental organization

( )With another type of organization. Please specify:

( )No work placement done (skip to question 30)

  1. What knowledge and/or skills did you acquire from this work placement specifically? (Check as many as apply.)

( )Problem solving

( )Critical thinking

( )Networking

( )Use or application of new technology

( )Self-confidence

( )Openness

( )Tolerance

( )Patience

( )Acceptance

( )Sensitivity

( )Ability to work in a multicultural Environment

( )Listening skills

( )Ability to communicate in a new language

( )Inter-cultural understanding

( )Initiative

( )Leadership

( )Entrepreneurship

( )Other, please specify:

( )No skills or knowledge acquired specifically from work placement

  1. Overall, how satisfied were you with your work placement during this exchange?Please use a scale of 1 to 10 where “1” means “not at all satisfied” and “10” means “very satisfied”.

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Section 7 – Other Benefits and drawbacks

  1. Have you received employment opportunities or offers that you would not have received had you not gone on this exchange?

( )Yes

( )No

  1. How many networks or contacts would you say you created as a result of the exchange?
  1. How many networks or contacts have you maintained contact with since your return to Canada?
  1. What were other major benefits of your participation in the exchange?
  1. What were the major drawbacks of your participation in the exchange?
Section 8 - Conclusion
  1. Would you have been able to go on an international study exchange without the financial assistance of this program?

( )Yes

( )No

  1. Would you have been able to study abroad in this discipline without the financial assistance of this program?

( )Yes

( )No

  1. Would you have been able to study abroad in the country you did study in, without the financial assistance of this program?

( )Yes

( )No

  1. Did, or will, this experience make a difference in your personal and/or professional life? What difference did, or will, it makes?
  1. Overall, did the experience meet your expectations? Do you have any additional comments to make on the exchange?

Section 9 – Additional information

Completing this section is encouraged but optional.

The information collected in this section, as in the questionnaire as a whole, will not be used to identify an individual student, but to compilea profile of the total exchangestudent population participating in our programs.

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  1. Gender / sex:

( )Male

( )Female

  1. Are you:

Group

/ Yes / No
an aboriginal person?
a person with a disability?
a member of a visible minority?
a woman?

Thank you very much for completing this questionnaire.

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