Table 1 Questionnaire design and variable setting.

From: Cultivating global minds: the development of undergraduates’ international capabilities at an elite university in China’s Yangtze River Delta

Dimensions

Survey scales/Factors

Subscales

Number of survey items

Personal information

Grade, [disciplinary] college, major, participation in internationalisation, and form of internationalisation experience (exchange programmes or internationalisation courses)

8

Institutional IC development initiative

Internationalisation cultivation plan

Level of understanding of institutional internationalisation cultivation plan, and access to information

4

Internationalisation resources and quality assurance

Resourcefulness of courses/programmes, and quality of courses/programmes

10

Implementation procedure

Difficulties of course/programme selection

2

Individual attitudes and experience

Engagement attitude

Willingness to participate, degree of acceptance of cultivation model, and degree of recognition of cultivation pathway

6

Internationalisation experience

Course/programme content, instructional design, assessment methods, and classroom atmosphere

8

Students’ self-assessment of IC

Knowledge, skill, and attitude

7