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"Tuning in to Kids": A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Emotion Coaching Parenting Program for Chinese Parents in Hong Kong
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Chan, Rachel Fung-Ying; Qiu, Chen; Shum, Kathy Kar-man – Developmental Psychology, 2021
"Tuning in to Kids" (TIK) is a parenting program that focuses on emotion coaching and is evidenced to be effective in Western populations. This study used a randomized controlled trial to examine the intervention effects of TIK on Chinese parents of low to middle socioeconomic status in Hong Kong. One hundred four parents (99 mothers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Emotional Response
The Ecology for Fostering the Musical Creativity of Students with Intellectual Disabilities
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Wong, Marina Wai-Yee – International Journal of Music Education, 2022
Students with intellectual disabilities in Hong Kong are placed in special schools in their neighborhoods according to their categories of intellectual disabilities. Music teachers in these special schools implement a school-based music curriculum that includes the learning objective "creativity and imagination." Reporting a qualitative…
Descriptors: Music Education, Creativity, Imagination, Intellectual Disability
Conventional or Sustainable? Chinese University Students' Thinking about Feedback Used in Their English Lessons
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Zhan, Ying – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Feedback has been increasingly conceptualised as a dialogical process where students interpret the provided information through interaction with comment providers and use it to enhance their learning. A major challenge for the development of sustainable feedback is closely related to how students think about it. This study explored how 25 Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship
Positive Psychology Intervention to Alleviate Child Depression and Increase Life Satisfaction: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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Kwok, Sylvia Y. C. L.; Gu, Minmin; Kit, Katrina Tong Kai – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Purpose: The study aims to examine the effectiveness of a positive psychology group-based intervention program, incorporating elements of hope and gratitude, in decreasing depression and increasing life satisfaction among primary school students in Hong Kong. Method: A total of 68 children, with the Depression score of Chinese Hospital Anxiety and…
Descriptors: Child Health, Depression (Psychology), Life Satisfaction, Positive Reinforcement
Students' School Motivation and Aspiration over High School Years
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Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; McInerney, Dennis M. – Educational Psychology, 2005
Students from a school in Hong Kong (n = 199) responded to 22 items asking about their school motivation and aspirations in a survey. Structural equation models found four school motivation factors consistent with the task, effort, competition, and praise scales of the Inventory of School Motivation, one education aspiration factor, one career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Statistical Analysis, Structural Equation Models
Two Effective Approaches for Helping Poor Readers.
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Burdett, Linda – British Journal of Special Education, 1986
Paired reading (with a helper) and an individualized approach employing a "pause, prompt, and praise" strategy were found equally effective in a comparison study involving 48 elementary students in Hong Kong with reading problems. Both forms of treatment produced greater gains than normal classroom instruction received by a control…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Instruction, Individualized Instruction