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Tang, Xiaowei; Shu, Gang; Wei, Bing; Levin, Daniel – Science Education, 2024
Students often learn about measurement uncertainty as an isolated topic, with a focus on generalizable strategies to manage uncertainty in scientific investigation. In this study, we report and analyze a case of emergent learning about measurement and uncertainty, in which students in a Chinese elementary school science class explored and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Process Skills
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Mao, Jih-Yu; Xiao, Jincen; Liu, Xin; Qing, Tao; Xu, Hongling – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
In this research, we explore how coworker ideation levels or, more specifically, the average ideation levels of coworkers within a workgroup affect a focal employee's ideation. We examine an underlying mechanism and a boundary condition of this influence process. Drawing on social cognitive theory, we argue that high coworker ideation levels are…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Employee Attitudes, Creativity, Self Efficacy
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Yang, Qinghua; Orrego Dunleavy, Victoria; Phillips, Jasmine Rene – Communication Education, 2016
This study examined how mentoring initiation and maintenance strategies mediate the relationship between acculturative stress and intercultural communication competence on Chinese graduate students' program satisfaction. Results supported a partial mediation effect for mentoring maintenance strategies. By specifying the mediating effect, the model…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Mentors, Communication Strategies
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Zhijun, Sun; Zeyun, Liu; Baicai, Sun – Chinese Education & Society, 2015
This paper focuses on the impact of school factors on student achievement due to differences in family backgrounds. Based on the principle of diminishing effects of school investment in children's achievement, this study built a model that includes individual characteristics, family characteristics, and school characteristics. Family and school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Academic Achievement, Family Characteristics
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Monahan, Michael; Shah, Amit; Bao, Yan; Rana, Jyoti – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2015
China and India are the two most populous countries on the planet. To deal with the myriad of challenges and opportunities these countries face will require leadership. The future leaders who will address many of these issues come from institutions of higher education. But, do these students have the requisite leadership training and does it vary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disciplines, Leadership Training, Business Administration Education
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Su, Yin; Rao, Li-Lin; Sun, Hong-Yue; Du, Xue-Lei; Li, Xingshan; Li, Shu – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The debate about whether making a risky choice is based on a weighting and adding process has a long history and is still unresolved. To address this long-standing controversy, we developed a comparative paradigm. Participants' eye movements in 2 risky choice tasks that required participants to choose between risky options in single-play and…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Risk, Decision Making, Task Analysis
Chen, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Given that the Chinese economy has experienced rapid growth over the last decade, developing Internet banking and transforming traditional lines of products into web sites beyond "brick and mortar" local branches will be the main drivers for both Chinese banks and foreign banks to tap into the available of Chinese savings. The primary…
Descriptors: Banking, Internet, College Students, Social Behavior
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Zou, Xiehua – International Education Studies, 2009
The Chinese government's stated objective of student financial aid (SFA) policy is to help students from low-income families to access higher levels of education. This article first explores the possible associations between the distribution of SFA and students' various demographic and academic backgrounds. Then it presents the findings regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid, Social Justice, Low Income Groups
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Yang, Weiwei; Stokes, Garnett S.; Hui, C. Harry – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
This study evaluated Holland's (1973, 1985, 1997) structural hypotheses--circular order and circumplex--in two populations in China at both the subtest (Activities, Competencies, Occupational Preferences, and Self-ratings on Abilities) and the entire test levels of the Self-Directed Search (SDS; Holland, 1994). Confirmatory factor analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Interests, Factor Structure, Cross Cultural Studies
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Long, Lirong; Adams, Ryan S.; Tracey, Terence J. G. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
Two Chinese samples of the high school students (N=721) and the college students (N=943) were administered a translated version of the Personal Globe Inventory (PGI, Tracey, 2002), and the responses were examined with respect to their structure. Results of separate factor analyses demonstrated that there were three substantive factors:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, College Students, Factor Structure