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Size Matters: The Link between Staff Size and Perceived Organizational Support in Early Childhood Education
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Ho, Dora; Lee, Moosung; Teng, Yue – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between staff size and perceived organizational support (POS) in early childhood education (ECE) organizations. Design/methodology/approach: A territory-wide questionnaire survey was designed to investigate the perceptions of preschool teachers in Hong Kong on four dimensions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Student Ratio, Preschool Teachers
The Preparation of Highly Motivated and Professionally Competent Teachers in Initial Teacher Education
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Tang, Sylvia Y. F.; Wong, Angel K. Y.; Cheng, May M. H. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
Education systems around the world need to recruit highly motivated individuals to become teachers and prepare professionally competent teacher education graduates to take up these broadened and deepened roles and responsibilities with a deep and lasting engagement to the profession. This article reports on a mixed-methods study that examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Competencies
Self-Efficacy Is Associated with Less Burden and More Gains from Behavioral Problems of Alzheimer's Disease in Hong Kong Chinese Caregivers
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Cheng, Sheung-Tak; Lam, Linda C. W.; Kwok, Timothy; Ng, Natalie S. S.; Fung, Ada W. T. – Gerontologist, 2013
Purpose: To test the effects of different self-efficacy beliefs on caregiver appraisals and depressive symptoms. We hypothesized that self-efficacy has a direct effect on depression while moderating the effects of behavioral problems on both negative (i.e., burden) and positive (i.e., uplifting) appraisals. Design and Methods: Ninety-nine Chinese…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Self Efficacy, Alzheimers Disease, Negative Attitudes
Modeling Participation Intention of Adults in Continuing Education--A Behavioral Approach
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Lau, Chiu Ming; Chen, Qijie – International Education Studies, 2012
The study examined how attitudes and subjective norms could be used to predict participation intention of adults in continuing education. In this research, attitudes comprised the two variables of positive attitude and negative attitude and subjective norms included normative belief and motivation to comply. Structural equation modeling using a…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Adults, Intention, Participation
Validation of the Beliefs against Volunteering Scale among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong
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Law, Ben M. F.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2011
Participation in volunteer service is an indicator of quality of life. This study attempts to validate the Beliefs Against Volunteering Scale (BAV), an assessment of the negative beliefs about volunteerism among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. The BAV was administered to 5,946 Chinese adolescents. The BAV and its subscales were found to be…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Validity, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals)
An Exploration of Speaking-in-Class Anxiety with Chinese ESL Learners
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Mak, Barley – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article reports the findings of a study investigating factors contributing to the speaking-in-class anxiety of a group of 313 Chinese ESL first-year university students in Hong Kong. Results using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) of Horwitz et al. reveal five factors leading to the group's speaking-in-class anxiety. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Negative Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries