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Kember, David; Ho, Amber; Hong, Celina – Learning Environments Research, 2010
This study investigated facets of the teaching and learning environment which motivate student learning. Interviews were conducted with 36 students from nine representative undergraduate degree programs in Hong Kong. The interviewees were asked to describe teaching approaches and learning activities typical of their program. They were asked about…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Motivation
Jia, Yujie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study employed Bachman and Palmer's (2010) Assessment Use Argument framework to investigate to what extent the use of a second language oral test as an exit test in a Hong Kong university can be justified. It also aimed to help test developers of this oral test identify the most critical areas in the current test design that might need…
Descriptors: Test Use, Language Tests, Oral Language, Second Language Learning
Tam, Po-chi – Research in Drama Education, 2010
Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's Carnival theory, this article focuses on specific outcomes of a research project the author undertook in Hong Kong, where drama pedagogy has been recently introduced into the official curriculum. It investigates the ways in which laughter, noise, jokes, frolic and popular literacies commonly appear in classrooms where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Instruction, Theories
Cheung, Chau-kiu; Leung, Kwan-kwok – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Proponents of social equality attribute low life satisfaction to income inequality in society, an inequality which occurs when most people have relatively low income and only a few have high income. In contrast, range-frequency theory and other social comparison theories predict that when most people have low income, they are satisfied because of…
Descriptors: Low Income, Life Satisfaction, Prediction, Foreign Countries
Kember, David; Ho, Amber; Hong, Celina – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Governments are aiming to expand the intake to higher education, so it is important to understand what motivates students to enter university and choose a particular programme. The aim of this study was to see whether a motivational orientation framework, developed to explain motivation to study, could also be applied to motivation to enrol in a…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Undergraduate Students, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation
Tang, Sylvia Yee Fan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
This article attempts to unpack the complexity of teachers' professional knowledge construction in Assessment for Learning (hereafter, AfL). It presents a qualitative study of a school-based AfL Project which took place in a secondary school in Hong Kong. Thirty lessons video-recorded in the AfL Project and nine teacher interviews conducted after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Chu, Donna – New Horizons in Education, 2010
Background: Almost three decades have passed since the Grunwald Declaration on Media Education was issued by the representatives of 19 nations at UNESCO's International Symposium on Media Education in Germany (UNESCO 1982). Cycles of information revolution and education reform over this period have led to significant changes in the sectors of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Journalism Education, Media Literacy, Active Learning
Lee, John Chi-Kin; Zhang, Zhonghua; Yin, Hongbiao – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2010
This article used the multidimensional random coefficients multinomial logit model to examine the construct validity and detect the substantial differential item functioning (DIF) of the Chinese version of motivated strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ-CV). A total of 1,354 Hong Kong junior high school students were administered the…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Rating Scales, Questionnaires, Goodness of Fit
Yu, Christina Wai Mui – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2009
This article examines four categories of teaching strategy used in business classes by a group of 26 secondary school business teachers in Hong Kong, using grounded theoretical coding techniques in the analysis. Each of the teaching categories is illustrated with typical extracts from interviews and is discussed in relation to its effectiveness…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Business Education Teachers
Siu, Wanda – NASSP Bulletin, 2008
There is a paucity of studies that assess the influence of communication in facilitating educational change. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of communication for high school principals in the implementation of education reform. Overall, the study found that top-down communication strategy was more prevalent in high schools. These…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Educational Change, Principals, High Schools
Chong, Terence Tai-Leung; Cheung, Ka-Shing; Hui, Pik-Hung – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2009
This paper investigates the determinants of student attendance of economics classes. Course-specific and individual-specific factors are shown to have significant impacts on class attendance. It was found that female students and overseas students skip classes less often. Surprisingly, students involved in extra-curricular activities attend…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Attendance, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Geok-Lin Lim, Shirley – World Englishes, 2010
Reflecting on the influence of English nursery rhyme poems on one individual Asian child's language development, the paper reviews current studies on the socio-cultural dynamics of creativity, to examine how these theoretical and empirical investigations may help shape specific pedagogical practices in the expressive language arts in a Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Creative Writing, Rhyme, Foreign Countries
Yu, Christina Wai Mui; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian M. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2008
This paper identifies and describes Hong Kong secondary business teachers' conceptions of student competence in business education, and their choice of teaching approaches to developing such competence. It also addresses the relationship between the conceptualisation of competence and teaching approaches in developing student competence.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Foreign Countries, Business Education Teachers, Business Education
Moir-Bussy, Ann; Sun, Catherine – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2008
Within the context of the growing development of intercultural counsellor education, the question of how different cultures reconceptualize and transform Western counselling theories for their own context is an important one. In this intercultural exchange in education, concepts such as "globalization", "indigenization" and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Counselor Training, Foreign Countries, Counseling Theories
Chau, Juliana; Cheng, Gary – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2010
One innovative practice in higher education arising from advances in computer technology is the use of ePortfolio for learning and assessment. Although in theory ePortfolios are believed to yield benefits for learning, in practice ePortfolio use often leads to confusion and frustration. In this paper we ask: what is the relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, College Students