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Wang, Hui; King, Ronnel B.; McInerney, Dennis M. – Research Papers in Education, 2023
The advantages and disadvantages of ability grouping for student achievement are strongly contested, with studies presenting different results. However, much of this research has focused on class-level or subject-level ability grouping. Relatively less research has focused on school-level ability grouping. More importantly, the role of teacher…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Wong, Ruth – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
What will happen if students cannot go to school and can rely on online learning? This study aimed to examine whether students' basic learning needs could be met when teaching and learning can only be conducted through online mode. According to Ormrod (2011), the four basic learning needs are arousal, autonomy, relatedness and competence, which…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Needs, Personal Autonomy, Competence
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Wing-Leung Yeung; Oi-Lam Ng – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
This paper reports a design and implementation of a STEM enrichment programme infused with affective elements designed for Hong Kong students. Specifically, it features a design-thinking approach to develop solutions to a self-selected problem addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Around 30 upper primary school (grades 5 to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Enrichment Activities, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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Fung, Joyce J. Y.; Yuen, Mantak; Yuen, Allan H. K. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2018
A Chinese version of the Online Self-Regulated Learning Questionnaire (OLSQ) was administered to 412 Hong Kong students of average ability and 374 students talented in mathematics (Grades 4-9, age 9-15 years). Data indicated that the Chinese OLSQ provides valid and reliable scores when used with these students.
Descriptors: Talent, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Evidence
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Lau, Kit-Ling – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Building on previous listening strategy research, the author aimed to explore the differences between Chinese high-proficiency listeners (HLs) and low-proficiency listeners (LLs) on their strategy use, problems, and motivation in native language (L1) listening. It involved 1,290 Grade 7 and 1,515 Grade 9 students. Both quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 9
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Kwan, Alvin C. M.; Chu, Samuel K. W.; Hong, Athena W. L.; Tam, Frankie; Lee, Grace M. Y.; Mellecker, Robin – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2015
Current educational resources for sex education in Hong Kong are mainly designed to be used in classroom. They are mostly text-based and are unattractive to the most vulnerable adolescent group. As discussion on sex is still taboo in Chinese society, self-learning resources can supplement classroom teaching. This paper describes an interactive…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Games
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Liu, Jing Dong; Chung, Pak-Kwong – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2015
The current study presents the development process and initial validation of a measure designed for assessing psychological needs thwarting (frustration) in a secondary school physical education context (Psychological Needs Thwarting Scale in Physical Education, PNTSPE). Secondary school students (grades 7-9) from Hong Kong (N = 1258) were invited…
Descriptors: Chinese, Physical Education, Psychological Needs, Secondary School Students
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; Lo, Jason C. M.; Ho, Connie S.-H.; Xiao, Xiaoyun; Chan, David W. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2014
This study aims to investigate the relation of syntactic and discourse skills to morphological skills, rapid naming, and working memory in Chinese adolescent readers with dyslexia and to examine their cognitive-linguistic profiles. Fifty-two dyslexic readers (mean age, 13;42) from grade 7 to 9 in Hong Kong high schools were compared with 52…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Naming, Short Term Memory, Syntax
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Leong, Che Kan; Ho, Man Koon; Chang, Jianfang; Hau, Kit Tai – Language Testing, 2013
The present study examined pedagogic components of Chinese reading literacy in a representative sample of 1164 Grades 7, 9 and 11 Chinese students (mean age of 15 years) from 11 secondary schools in Hong Kong with each student tested for about 2.5 hours. Multiple group confirmatory factor analyses showed that across the three grade levels, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 9
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Lai, Fung-Kuen – System, 1993
Some 226 Hong Kong students in grades 7-9 benefited from a 4-week summer program on reading comprehension, reading speed, and writing development. Results are discussed in the context of the local sociolinguistic environment. (15 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Wong, Ngai-Ying; Lam, Chi-Chung; Chan, Chui-See – Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics Education, 2002
Reviews the types of math problems grade 7 and grade 9 students attempted in class, at home, and on examinations collected during the 1999-2000 school year. Indicates that students were exposed to a variety of problem types, but the level of contextualization was low as was the level of open-endedness of the questions. (Author/KHR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
Yeung, Nancy Tsui Yee; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing – 2001
A total of 199 students from a school in Hong Kong responded to 25 items in a survey. Principal components analysis found four school motivation factors consistent with the Task, Effort, Competition and Praise scales of the McInerney, et al. (1997) Inventory of School Motivation, one education aspiration factor and one career aspiration factor.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attitude Measures, Competition
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Sham, Diana Po Lan – Online Submission, 2002
The research was conducted in Sydney and Hong Kong using students, from grades 5 to 9, whose first language or teaching medium was English, learning to read Chinese as second language. According to cognitive load theory, the processing of single Chinese characters accompanied by pictures should impose extraneous cognitive load and thus hinders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Native Language, Chinese
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference papers are centered around the theme of "Learners and Learning Environments." This volume features 43 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Adl…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Research Reports, Symbols (Mathematics)