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Downing, Kevin; Kwong, Theresa; Chan, Sui-Wah; Lam, Tsz-Fung; Downing, Woo-Kyung – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
This study samples first year undergraduates from two programmes at a Hong Kong University (N = 66). One programme uses an entirely problem-based approach to learning and teaching, whilst the other uses more traditional methods. Using the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) as a measure of student perceptions of their thinking, or…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Metacognition, College Freshmen, Conventional Instruction
Gong, Gwendolyn – 1997
Education in Hong Kong has been developed along a British model that uses examination results to determine students' academic futures: to be allowed to go on to a university to study or to go into the workplace with a tenth-grade education. The system has been described by likening students to Peking ducks who are forced to eat, fattened up for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education