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Benefits of the Erasmus mobility experience: a discrete latent variable analysis
silvia bacci, valeria caviezel, anna maria falzoni

Last modified: 2018-05-18

Abstract


Internationalization of higher education has become a priority in the Europeaneducation policy. For this reason, research in this area is expanding with theaim of understanding motivations and potential benefits of international mobility. Insuch a context, an online survey addressed to about 1,600 students with Erasmusmobility experiences was conducted by the University of Bergamo (IT). Two latenttraits, that is, the impact of the Erasmus experience on the student’s abilities and thestudent’s satisfaction for this experience, are analyzed through a two-dimensionallatent class Item Response Theory model under a concomitant variable approach.The twofold issue concerning the choice of the optimal number of latent classes aswell as the selection of significant covariates is specially addressed.

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