Studies the development of early drawing in 129 Chinese children aged 7 to 12 and 118 English children aged 7 to 11. Results indicate that similarities are more apparent than differences in children's drawings. (RJC)

Studied the contingency relationship of school organizational health to teacher commitment with multilevel statistical analysis in a survey involving 20 aided primary schools and 423 teachers in Hong Kong. Results indicate that the relationship between school organizational health and teacher commitment is contingent on teacher characteristics.…

Many researchers have stressed that the acoustic environment is crucial to the speech perception, academic performance, attention, and participation of students in classrooms. Classrooms in highly urbanised locations are especially vulnerable to noise, a major influence on the acoustic environment. The purpose of this investigation was to…

The procedure for the development of a measure of humour appreciation among a convenience sample of 53 primary school children attending a one-week summer program held in Hong Kong is described. Two sets of visual stimuli depicting pictures of local celebrities portrayed either veridically (congruously) or incongruously were established from a…

This study examines how the language used at home, Putonghua or Cantonese, has influenced the Chinese reading attainment of 4335 primary school students in Hong Kong. Also examined was the influence of the birthplace and home background socioeconomic status (SES) of the reader. Although the indigenous Hong Kong population uses Cantonese, a dialect…

This study sought to measure general teacher efficacy levels of in-service primary teachers in Hong Kong. Participants included 725 Hong Kong in-service teachers, who were invited to take part in the study. These in-service teachers came from 28 different primary schools ranging from government, aided, private and direct subsidy schools. The…

Borrowing from theories of adult organizations, investigates how teacher leadership style is related to use of power, social climate, and student-affective performance in a sample of 678 classrooms in 190 Hong Kong primary schools. A teacher's leadership and use of power are interrelated in leading a class of students. Also, leadership style is…

Used a phenomenographic approach to reveal the qualitatively different ways in which 40 students in Hong Kong (China) primary and secondary schools experience and understand the phenomenon of graphic representations of quantitative data. Describes an outcome space depicting four variations of children's understanding. (Author/SLD)

Examined the inferences and judgements of gender schematic and aschematic elementary school students in Hong Kong. After being categorized according to their reaction times to gender stereotypic and counterstereotypic items, students made inferences and judgements about four male and female targets behaving gender stereotypically or…

This study investigated the development of visual chunking skills in the processing of Chinese characters among Hong Kong pupils. One-hundred-seventy-nine primary school students from first, second and fourth grades were administered a character copying task. Children as young as 6 years of age were aware of character units and were able to apply…

In April 2003, the government closed all schools for several weeks in Hong Kong to halt the spread of the virus causing Severe Upper Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). In 2004, schools in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia closed down for weeks at a time because of potential terrorist strikes. School leaders need options to continue to provide the educational…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the criterion-related validity of a 3-min step test using 3 stepping cadences. Chinese children (N = 50; age = 8.92 plus or minus 1.64 years) performed three 3-min bouts of a bench stepping exercise on a 12-in.-high (30.5 cm) bench. Stepping cadences for the 3 step tests were 22, 26, and 30 steps per…

The study examines the reading attitudes and attainment of Hong Kong, Singapore and English primary-school students using data collected in the PIRLS 2001 international reading survey. A total of 13,486 students aged 9-10 years were assessed. Singaporean students were found to have more positive reading attitudes and confidence than Hong Kong and…

This paper presents a field experiment examining the effect of drama education on the psychological development of grades 1 and 4 students. The drama curriculum was delivered after school for one day each week for 16 weeks. Students in the experimental group attended drama education classes, whereas students in the control group took part in the…

Investigates teachers' concerns about the Target-Oriented Curriculum (TOC) in Hong Kong (China). Finds that most teachers showed concern about the management of TOC (found in the third stage) and most were concerned with efficiency, time demands, organization, scheduling, and the best use of resources. Includes references. (CMK)