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Aiwen Niu; Changchun Gao; Chenhui Yu – SAGE Open, 2025
Entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid has profound implications for economic development in impoverished regions. Building upon Timmons' three-factor theory of entrepreneurship and the resource conservation theory, this study adopts the transition-persistence strategy of entrepreneurs from lower social classes as the focal point, with…
Descriptors: Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Disadvantaged, Social Class
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Li, Zhenyi; Lei, Wanpeng – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2023
Supporting socio-economically disadvantaged students to improve their academic resilience is vital in promoting social mobility and halting intergenerational transmission of poverty. Based on the baseline data 2013-2014 from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) database, this paper examined the impact of preschool education experience on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged
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Ka-Yan Fung; Lik-Hang Lee; Pan Hui; Shenghui Song – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has suspended physical classes and influenced students from underprivileged groups more seriously due to their poor living conditions and digital disadvantages. To understand the impact of the constrained learning, we conducted a study on game-based learning to examine the effectiveness of computer-aided and autonomous…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Disadvantaged Youth
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Guo, Xin; Cheung, Alan C. K.; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, Anne – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
This study investigated the effectiveness of ABRACADABRA (ABRA), a web-based literacy program, developed by the Center for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, in facilitating the literacy attainment of third-grade primary school students in an area of rural China. Researchers shared the experiences of localizing ABRA to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Rural Schools
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Niu, Sunny Xinchun; Wan, Guofang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
The Chinese government has implemented a series of special admission policies in recent years to increase access to elite universities for disadvantaged students from rural areas and less developed inland regions. Using administrative data of 1996-2015 freshman cohorts and survey data of a 2014 freshman cohort at X University in the eastern China,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, College Freshmen, Program Effectiveness
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Liu, Chengfang; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; Wang, Xiaobing; Rozelle, Scott; Sharbono, Brian; Adams, Jennifer; Shi, Yaojiang; Yue, Ai; Li, Hongbin; Glauben, Thomas – Economics of Education Review, 2011
Many educational systems have struggled with the question about how best to give out financial aid. In particular, if students do not know the amount of financial aid that they can receive before they make a decision about where to go to college and what major to study, it may distort their decision. This study utilizes an experiment (implemented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Decision Making, Student Financial Aid
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Xingzhi, Shanxi Tao – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
This article reports the achievement of a nine-year program in which students from Xinzhou Normal College participate in semester-long substitute teaching in disadvantaged schools in a poverty-stricken area of Shanxi province. The substitute teaching, which constitutes an important part of the 411 Project by Xinzhou Normal College, takes place in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Professional Training, Substitute Teachers, Investigations
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Wang, Samuel C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1999
Investigated the creation, development, contributions, and limits of Project Hope, a government-endorsed education project in rural communities in China. Identifies shortcomings of the program and the misleading nature of its curriculum. (SLD)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Government Role
Wu, Heng; Long, Pingping – Chinese Education: A Journal of Translations, 1989
Reports the results of a survey conducted to determine the conditions among minorities in the capital. Stresses the importance of culture and education in working with minorities if the eradication of traditional inequality among nationalities is to be eliminated. Concludes that many programs have been successful in developing educational programs…
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Zhang, Tiedao; Jing, Min – 1997
Universalizing primary education for girls and children in disadvantaged areas remains the most challenging task for developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. This evaluation report reviews the processes and outcomes of the Pilot Project on Promotion of Primary Education for Girls and Children in Disadvantaged Areas in Gansu Province, China, a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Development, Disadvantaged, Educational Attitudes