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Chen, Yu; Guo, Chorng-Jee; Lim, Kam Ming; Mun, Kong-Ju; Otsuji, Hisashi; Park, Young-Shin; Sorrell, David; So, Wing Mui Winnie – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This study examined the associations between school entry skills and science achievement at both the student and school levels among fourth-grade students in South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Chinese Taipei, and Hong Kong. Data of the five Asian regions in the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) were analysed. Variables…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Numeracy, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Lam, Bick Har – Schools: Studies in Education, 2008
Two decades after I left teaching primary school for a university career, I observed students and teachers in a mainstream primary school in Hong Kong. There were three main student communities within the school. Those who were labeled extremely low achievers were taught in a small class of not more than 12; these students were taught a curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Discipline Problems, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement
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Hue, Ming-Tak – Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal for Pastoral Care & Personal-Social Education, 2007
Discipline is a crucial aspect of teachers' and students' classroom lives. Hong Kong secondary teachers, as elsewhere, are concerned with students' misbehaviour. This article examines teachers' constructs of classroom discipline and strategies adopted for behaviour management. Qualitative data were collected by interviews and classroom…
Descriptors: Discipline, Asian Culture, Observation, Confucianism
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Leung, Catherine Lai-yee; Lee, Francis Wing-lin – Research in Education, 2005
Rule-breaking behaviour of students is a common disciplinary problem in schools. Employing the constitutive perspective, which posits that every social phenomenon is co-produced by several constitutive units in a COREL (constitutive interrelational) set, this article presents the findings of a qualitative study of the phenomenon. Eleven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discipline, Cognitive Mapping, Behavior Problems
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Tony, Tam Shui Kee – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
This article presents the findings of a study hypothesizing that school discipline problems are a maladaptive response to the demand of the school environment as a result of deficits in the area of locus of control and attributional style. The findings indicate that an external orientation of locus of control and a passive pattern of attribution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Discipline Problems, Locus of Control
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Carless, David – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2004
Although task-based teaching is frequently practiced in contemporary English language teaching, it is underresearched in state school settings. This article contributes to filling this gap in the literature by using qualitative case study data to explore how a task-based innovation was implemented in three primary school classrooms in Hong Kong.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, State Schools, Language Teachers