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Price, Linda; Richardson, John T. E.; Robinson, Bernadette; Ding, Xia; Sun, Xiaoling; Han, Cuiling – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
It has been claimed that students from "Confucian-heritage" cultures approach studying in higher education differently from Western students. This study investigated the experiences and the approaches to studying of students at a university in China. A total of 356 students completed both the Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Study Habits
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Gan, Zhengdong – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Although cultural stereotypes of Asian students as being prone to rote learning, passive and teacher-dependent have been under criticism, the issue of the extent to which Asian heritage culture impacts on Asian students' learning attitudes and behaviour warrants further investigation. This paper reports on an empirical study which compares…
Descriptors: Asians, Student Attitudes, Stereotypes, Rote Learning
Joyce, Tan Bei Yu; Yates, Shirley M. – International Education Journal, 2007
This study used the Rasch model to assess the unidimensionality and item-person fit of an Academic Self-Concept Questionnaire (ASCQ) that is based on the Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) perspective. Knowledge of the relationship between academic achievement and academic self-concept is particularly useful because academic achievement is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Concept Measures, Questionnaires, Rating Scales