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Furnham, Adrian; Wu, Chun – High Ability Studies, 2014
This study set out to examine whether Chinese parents, more than people from other nations, over-estimate the intelligence of their son (little emperor) compared to their daughter. In this study, 155 pairs of married couples from mainland China estimated their own, their partner's and their only child's overall intelligence and 13 "multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Intelligence, Sons
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Law, Yin-Kum – Educational Research, 2009
Background: The latest report by the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), issued in 2006, indicated that Hong Kong Primary 4 Chinese students outperformed children from 45 countries and provinces in reading comprehension tests that measured their higher-order reading proficiency. However, the study gave no indication of how…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intelligence, Low Income Groups, Reading Strategies