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Direct linkHuan Li; Jisun Jung; Hugo Horta – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
Research on the career trajectories of doctoral recipients often assumes that all PhD students begin in roughly the same starting position. Consequently, the impact of pre-programme experiences remains understudied. This qualitative study draws on 59 interviews with PhD students studying in mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the influence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Masters Programs, Prior Learning
Wright, Ewan; Lee, Moosung – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Across East and Southeast Asia, the International Baccalaureate (IB) is expanding and diversifying. More students from affluent families are 'opting out' of mainstream schooling to take the IB's Diploma Programme (DP), which is marketed as a distinctive skill-based education that prepares students for university. This research investigated how DP…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Nontraditional Education, College Students, Student Attitudes
Download full textSiu, Fiona K. – Online Submission, 2022
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of a structural-cum-communicative approach to the teaching of vocabulary to students possessing a low level of English proficiency. A total of 52 foundation degree students taking a 13-week preparatory reading and writing course participated in the present study. Both the control and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Vocabulary Development, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Cheung, Lewis Ting On; Fok, Lincoln; Gou, Gloria Rui – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2016
The Hong Kong education system has undergone a dramatic change in its secondary and tertiary level of education. A single public examination for senior secondary education namely Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) was adopted to replace two previously used examinations in 2012. As a result, all higher education institutes in Hong…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Environmental Education
Chan, Cecilia K. Y. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Many educational researchers have established problem-based learning (PBL) as a total approach to education--both a product and a process--from a pedagogical instructional strategy to skills development to assessment. This study provides qualitative evidences from educational practitioners in various professional disciplines, namely, Medicine,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Guidelines, Instructional Effectiveness
Murphy, Phillip J.; Chan, Lung Sang; Murphy, Elizabeth – School Science Review, 2012
The development and delivery of an Earth-science-focused short course designed to prepare Hong Kong students for university level study is described. Earth sciences provide an inspirational and challenging context for learning and teaching in Hong Kong's increasingly skills-based curriculum. (Contains 3 figures and 4 online resources.)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Earth Science, Science Instruction, College Bound Students
Collins, Mary Ellen – CURRENTS, 2009
Tight budgets and an uncertain economy did not diminish creativity for the 2009 CASE Circle of Excellence Award winners. In fact, judges gave 19 Grand Gold awards this year, a significant increase over recent years. The program received 2,800 entries from 690 member institutions, representing 13 different countries. Forty-four panels of volunteer…
Descriptors: Awards, Universities, Foreign Countries, Colleges
Walker, Elizabeth – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2012
This study reports the impact of a professional development course on experienced, highly qualified secondary school teachers of English as a foreign language in preparation for their becoming paid assessors of student teachers on practicum. The course concerned a literacy-oriented pedagogy informed by literacy pedagogical content knowledge…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Practicums, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Feedback (Response)
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) More Good, Less Bad, and Still Need for Improvement: Latest International Test Reveals U.S. Progress in Math and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Guidance, Vocational Education, Public Education
Lewkowicz, Jo – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1990
A discussion of Chinese- and English-medium instruction in Hong Kong schools, particularly at the levels of secondary and higher education, focuses on recent recommendations for improved instruction and articulation. The discussion is presented in two parts. The first presents the response of the University of Hong Kong's Language Centre to the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Change Strategies, Chinese
