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Haiyan Qian; Allan Walker; Shuangye Chen – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
In July 2021 the Chinese Government unexpectedly released what has become known colloquially as the 'Double-Reduction' policy. The policy decreed the reduction of homework pressure on students and greater control of private tutorial companies. In this paper, we set out to understand why the Chinese central government launched the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Homework
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Xin Ma; Xingkai Luo – Evaluation Review, 2024
With an educational issue that has caught the attention of many countries in the world (study load), a population of 8th graders from a typical Chinese metropolitan city (40,536 from 118 schools), and an advanced statistical strategy (multilevel piecewise regression), we examined whether there was a turning point in terms of the effects of study…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Study Habits, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Grace Xuecong Ji; Philip Wing Keung Chan; Penelope Kalogeropoulos – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
The 2018 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results revealed a negative correlation between student academic achievement and wellbeing, indicating that higher academic performance often coincides with lower student well-being. In response to these findings and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Workload, Educational Policy, After School Programs