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Katrina Laguarda; Haiwen Wang; Linda Shear – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2024
By the end of the 2021-22 school year, CoolThink@JC had scaled successfully to 131 Hong Kong primary schools. This topical report explores the relationship between CoolThink implementation and student learning during the 2021-22 school year in schools in their first or second year of adopting CoolThink@JC. The report draws on data collected for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Achievement Gains, Problem Solving
Katrina Laguarda; Linda Shear; Satabdi Basu; Haiwen Wang – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2021
CoolThink@JC aims to nurture students' proactive use of technologies for social good from a young age, preparing them for a fast-changing digital future through hands-on, minds-on, and joyful learning experiences. After a successful pilot in 32 schools, CoolThink's co-creators, led by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust (the Trust), have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Thinking Skills
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Yeung, Sze Yin Shirley – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
Hong Kong has been actively promoting a student-centered approach to teaching since the 1980s. Despite this effort, students in Hong Kong still tend to be traditional learners who rarely experience and gain from real student-centered learning. While teachers hold a "quantitative" concept of learning and focus on transmitting declarative…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Rote Learning, Ideology, Foreign Countries