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Mao, Chin-Ju – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
This paper uses school choice policy as an example to demonstrate how local actors adopt, mediate, translate, and reformulate "choice" as neo-liberal rhetoric informing education reform. Complex processes exist between global policy about school choice and the local practice of school choice. Based on the theoretical sensibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Neoliberalism, Educational Change
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Xu, Lei; Richman, Alice R. – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
Making decisions to undergo Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) genetic testing can be challenging. It is important to understand how the perceptions of affected individuals might influence testing decision-making. Although evidence has shown that psychological factors are important in predicting testing decisions, affect-type variables have been…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Parents, Children, Genetics
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Chen, Hui-Hua; Liang, Yi-Ching; Gapp, Susan C.; Newland, Lisa A.; Giger, Jarod T.; Lin, Chunn-Ying – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
This study measured aspects of the couple relationship to examine direct and indirect relations with parental involvement in education and children's school outcomes. The sample (n = 100) consisted of families that have at least one child between the ages of 8 and 11 in urban central Taiwan. Findings indicated that couple relationship quality is…
Descriptors: Spouses, Interpersonal Relationship, Outcomes of Education, Parent Participation
Lin, Ching-Hui – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of financial aid policies on student persistence between the first and second year at a private four-year postsecondary institution in Taiwan. A two-phase sequential research design was employed with priority was given to the quantitative data--structural equation modeling (SEM). While the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid, Academic Persistence, College Students
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Wu, Jason H. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
This study was designed to examine the construct of academic optimism and its relationship with collective responsibility in a sample of Taiwan elementary schools. The construct of academic optimism was tested using confirmatory factor analysis, and the whole structural model was tested with a structural equation modeling analysis. The data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers
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Lung, For-Wey; Chiang, Tung-Liang; Lin, Shio-Jean; Feng, Jui-Ying; Chen, Po-Fei; Shu, Bih-Ching – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The parental report instrument is the most efficient developmental detection method and has shown high validity with professional assessment instruments. The reliability and validity of the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study (TBCS) 6-, 18- and 36-month scales have already been established. In this study, the reliability and validity of the 60-month scale…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Predictive Validity, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries