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Yuen, Yuet Mui Celeste; Lee, Moosung – Youth & Society, 2016
The present study aims to map the life satisfaction of adolescents from ethnic minority/immigrant backgrounds in schools with high concentrations of co-ethnic peers by comparing them with their mainstream counterparts in Hong Kong. The life satisfaction of 1,522 students was measured by the validated Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Adolescents, Minority Group Students
Hansen Edwards, Jette G. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
The study employs a case study approach to examine the impact of educational backgrounds on nine Hong Kong tertiary students' English and Cantonese language practices and identifications as native speakers of English and Cantonese. The study employed both survey and interview data to probe the participants' English and Cantonese language use at…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Language of Instruction, Sino Tibetan Languages, Self Concept
Bridges, Susan – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2015
Whilst face-to-face tutorial group interaction has been the focus of quantitative and qualitative studies in problem-based learning (PBL), little work has explored the independent learning phase of the PBL cycle from an interactionist perspective. An interactional ethnographic logic of inquiry guided collection and analysis of video recordings and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Undergraduate Study, Dental Schools, Dentistry
Chan, Lydia L. S.; Sylva, Kathy – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2015
While there have been reviews over the past decade of studies examining second-language (L2) acquisition and also emergent literacy development, these related bodies of knowledge have not generally been considered together in relation to the education of very young English-language learners. This paper attempts to do so in a selective manner by…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Second Language Learning, Environmental Influences, Family Environment
Pang, Ming Fai; Go, Luis – Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
Parents in dysfunctional family situations and those in intact well-functioning families have distinct requirements for parental learning and parent education. For intact well-functioning families, a developmental-educational paradigm for parent education is more appropriate. Although school-based parent education is ideal for well-functioning…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Family Environment, Semi Structured Interviews, Workshops
Erberber, Ebru; Stephens, Maria; Mamedova, Saida; Ferguson, Sharlyn; Kroeger, Teresa – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2015
Academically resilient students are those students who are academically successful, despite coming from the socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds that have typically predicted poorer educational outcomes. These students are an important group to study because if policymakers can understand what factors may have contributed to their…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Resilience (Psychology), Disadvantaged Youth
Lai, Chun – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
Learning takes place across different social contexts, and understanding how learners perceive and traverse different learning contexts enables educators to gain a more comprehensive view of their learning processes and to support their learning better. This study examined how undergraduate foreign language learners perceived their learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
Macfarlane, Bruce – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
The paper sets out a conceptual analysis of student performativity in higher education as a mirror image of teacher performativity. The latter is well known and refers to targets, evaluations and performance indicators connected with the measurement of the teaching and research quality of university academics. The former is defined as the way that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education, Accountability
Pavlova, Margarita, Ed.; Lee, John Chi-Kin, Ed.; Maclean, Rupert, Ed. – Springer, 2018
This book addresses growing reservations about the relevance of educational systems to the economic and social needs of individuals by examining different aspects of transitions from school to work or further studies within formal and informal settings in Asia. Highlighting important issues such as selectiveness and inclusiveness, integration of…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Models
Cheung, Wai Ming; Huang, Yanli; Tsang, Hector W. H. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Hong Kong attained champion of the PIRLS 2011 that aroused keen interest in understanding the underlying reasons of a non-alphabetic language. The study aimed at unravelling various aspects of the student and home factors which contributed to remarkable Chinese reading performance. Totally 3,875 students from 132 primary schools completed the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Structural Equation Models
Bice, Sara; Coates, Hamish – Tertiary Education and Management, 2016
This paper interrogates the case for improved and broadened public sustainability reporting by universities, and explores whether and how global performance measures capture the institutional attitudes and activities pertinent to universities' contributions to sustainability. The analysis explores all stand-alone, English language reports produced…
Descriptors: Universities, Sustainability, Global Approach, Reports
Reading Performance and Self-Regulated Learning of Hong Kong Students: What We Learnt from PISA 2009
Lau, Kit-ling; Ho, Esther Sui-chu – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
The outperformance of Chinese students in large-scale international assessments has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers. This study explored the relationship between an important student factor, self-regulated learning (SRL), and Hong Kong students' reading performance on Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA). Using…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Metacognition, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Foreign Countries
Lee, Yeung – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper reports an investigation of assessing students' information literacy (IL) in a naturalistic classroom environment by using a set of rubrics. A total of 72 lessons from 15 classrooms in Hong Kong were examined. Results indicate that the rubric is generally valid and usable in assessing students' IL skills but three more attributes which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scoring Rubrics, Information Literacy, Classroom Environment
Choi, Tat-Heung – Power and Education, 2015
With the aim of bridging the gap between the understanding of individual agency and that of structural constraint, this article deals with the ways in which autobiographical research can provide insight into how individuals negotiate the social contexts in which they are located. Despite the strong utilitarian discourse about the centrality of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Personal Autonomy, Autobiographies
Chan, Serene; Yuen, Mantak – Gifted Education International, 2015
The long-term aim of fostering creativity in all students is specifically included in Hong Kong's curriculum guidelines. However, implementation of teaching strategies to achieve this aim has presented difficulties for many teachers. It is likely that teachers with experience in gifted education are in the best position in this respect, because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Creativity