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Thomas Fan; Alfredo Bautista; Derwin King Chung Chan – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
In Hong Kong, the Education Bureau (EDB) is responsible for the quality assurance of kindergarten education services. EDB inspectors regularly conduct school visits to monitor kindergartens' performance and publish a Quality Review (QR) report for each kindergarten. Given the limited research on pedagogical practices pertaining to physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Physical Activities, Feedback (Response)
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Capio, Catherine M.; Chan, Wai Ling; Li, Echo Si – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2021
Teachers play a crucial role in promoting motor development in early childhood. A series of focus-group discussions was conducted with kindergarten teachers in Hong Kong to co-design movement activities. This paper reports the process and implications to teachers' professional development.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development, Kindergarten
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Ye, Yanyan; McBride, Catherine; Yin, Li; Cheang, Leo Man-Lit; Tse, Chun Yu – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Copying characters presented previously (delayed copying) is an important skill in Chinese literacy acquisition. The relations of delayed copying and a set of literacy-related skills (including vocabulary knowledge, rapid automatized naming, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and orthographic awareness), visual-orthographic judgment,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Chinese, Kindergarten
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Mo, Jianhong; McBride, Catherine; Yip, Laiying – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
We sought to test a componential model of Chinese written spelling, including the role of orthographic working memory (OWM), among Hong Kong kindergartners. One hundred seventeen kindergartners were recruited. OWM was measured using a visual orthographic judgment and a delayed copying task. Orthographic knowledge, semantic knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Role, Short Term Memory, Psychomotor Skills, Semantics
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Lam, Hazel Mei Yung – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
The primary aim this study was to investigate whether a gross motor proficiency norm developed in one country could be applied to young children in another country. The secondary aim of the study was to assess the gross motor proficiency of Hong Kong preschoolers aged five years. The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTMP) (subtests…
Descriptors: Norms, Foreign Countries, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills