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Yau Yu Chan; Nirmala Rao – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study considered the influences of the home learning environment and preschool quality on the development of 5-year-old Chinese (N = 43) and South Asian (N = 32) children in Hong Kong. Children were recruited from two preschools--one admitted only South Asian children, and the other admitted only Chinese children. Children were assessed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Influence, Preschool Education, Early Experience
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Yau Yu Chan; Nirmala Rao – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: This study investigated the effectiveness of a home-based intervention in increasing the intrinsic reading motivation and Chinese oral vocabulary of minority South Asian children in Hong Kong. A quasi-experiment was conducted with 78 children (M[subscript age] = 51.54 months; control: 37 children, intervention: 41 children) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation, Vocabulary Development, Children
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Chun Sing Maxwell Ho; Thomas Wing Yan Man; Ming Ming Chiu – International Journal of Educational Management, 2025
Purpose: Framed by social cognition theory, this study examines the impact of environmental factors (e.g. social norms) on students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ES) and entrepreneurial intention (EI). Design/methodology/approach: We obtained responses to a survey from 811 senior secondary students in Hong Kong. We then employed structural…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Social Behavior, Entrepreneurship, Self Efficacy
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Emily Sein Yue Elim Hui – Education 3-13, 2025
A previous study mentioned that students' action responses towards water pollution are incongruent with the training they received in schools. Conducting a course of two weeks with elementary students (N = 22) aged 9-10 in Hong Kong, the study aims to connect primary students' perceptions of the causes, consequences and responsive actions on water…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Audio Equipment, Visual Aids, Elementary School Students