Residential halls are an important component of college education, and the benefits for holistic personal development have been documented by previous research. The majority of studies, however, have focused on Western universities. The current research therefore assessed the academic, social and independent development of students attending…

The flipped classroom approach is increasingly popular. The effectiveness of the flipped classroom is promising, yet there is little consensus on whether and how varying the number of flipped lessons influences the overall course effectiveness and the affective perceptions of flipped learning. This is important because of the potential impacts on…

Service-learning was introduced to tertiary education in Asia more than a decade ago. However, there has been little prior Asia-based research across different jurisdictions comparing student developmental outcomes arising from service-learning. We report two studies that validated the Service-Learning Outcomes Measurement Scale (S-LOMS) by…

Limited research has been conducted so far to explore how meaning in life can promote key academic and psychological benefits in a school context. The research reported here aimed to address this issue by assessing how meaning in life is associated with dimensions of connectedness, academic self-efficacy (Study 1) and personal self-efficacy (Study…

Social problem solving is the cognitive-affective-behavioral process by which people attempt to resolve real-life problems in a social environment, and is of key importance in the management of emotions and well-being. This paper reviews a series of studies on social problem solving conducted by the authors. First, we developed and validated the…