{"id":2250,"date":"2010-07-16T14:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T02:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2010-07-16T14:07:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T02:07:32","slug":"news-brief-study-abroad-improves-academic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/news-brief-study-abroad-improves-academic-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Study abroad improves academic performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research from the past ten years has been compiled to show that students who study abroad have improved academic performance, higher graduation\u00a0rates and improved knowledge of cultural practices and context\u00a0upon returning to their home campus compared to students in control groups.<\/p>\n<p>The findings from the <a href=\"http:\/\/glossari.uga.edu\/\">Georgia\u00a0\u00a0Learning Outcomes of Students Studying Abroad Research Initiative<\/a>,\u00a0GLOSSARI, compared graduation rates and grade point averages for 19,109 study abroad students, from across the 35-institution University System of Georgia state system, which includes community colleges, research universities and institutions in between.\u00a0The study also included a\u00a0control group of 17,903 students selected to match the institution, semester of study and class standing of the students who\u2019d studied abroad.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, read further details of the research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/07\/13\/abroad\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from the past ten years has been compiled to show that students who study abroad have improved academic performance, higher graduation\u00a0rates and improved knowledge of cultural practices and context\u00a0upon returning to their home campus compared to students in control groups. The findings from the Georgia\u00a0\u00a0Learning Outcomes of Students Studying Abroad Research Initiative,\u00a0GLOSSARI, compared graduation rates and grade point averages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}