Assessing Intercultural Competence as a Result of Internationalization at Home Efforts: A Case Study From the Nightingale Program

• In Event: Poster Session 6
  In Poster Session: Cultural (Mis)Understanding

Abstract

In the last decades, many higher education institutions have developed practices of internationalization of curricula aiming at developing intercultural competences among the non-mobile students. Some have developed service-learning activities focusing on working with underserved communities from different cultures. This paper shows some challenges on how intercultural competence of college students could be quantitatively assessed. Outcomes are based on a survey given to a treatment group that participated in a mentoring program (n=95) and a control group (n=71). Paradoxically, results show scarce differences between groups in Attitudes, Skills, Comprehension and Desired Internal Outcomes in favor of the control group. But some slightly significant differences in favor of the treatment group are observed with regard to Dominance Orientation and Symbolic Racism.

Authors

• Òscar Prieto-Flores, University of Girona

• Jordi Feu, Universitat de Girona

• Xavier Casademont