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Andrade, Maureen Snow; Miller, Ronald Mellado; Kunz, Michelle B.; Ratliff, Janet M. – Open Learning, 2022
College students today are much more diverse in their needs than in the past (e.g., they may live off campus, work full or part time, and seek ways to lessen college-related debt). Institutions of higher education are seeking ways to more effectively reach this diverse student population, often through online education. Institutions also realise…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Business Schools, College Faculty, Distance Education
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Zhu, Xinhua; Chan, Shui Duen; Yao, Yuan – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: With a sample of 390 non-Chinese speaking first-grade primary school students and their parents in Hong Kong, this study examines associations between parental support and students' ideal selves, motivation, engagement, and Chinese reading test performance. Latent profile analysis (LPA) identified four groups of students (low-,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Chinese
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Hu, Xiao; Ng, Jeremy; Tsang, Kitty K. Y.; Chu, Samuel K. W. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This article reports findings from a study that aims to understand how to integrate mobile-learning into Learning Management System (LMS) in a community college in Hong Kong. In this study, a mobile-enabled LMS named SOUL was adopted to improve students' learning engagement and academic performance. Participating students were segregated into two…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Electronic Learning, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Yung, Kevin Wai Ho; Cai, Yuyang – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Secondary school-leaving English examination results are often regarded as indicators of students' competence to study in English-medium universities, which is usually demonstrated through source-based academic writing. In English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) contexts, many English-medium universities require local undergraduates to…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Writing Achievement, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Cheung, Man-Chiu Lau – 1999
The relationship between adults' self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) and selected variables was examined in a study of 25 Hong Kong Chinese Baptist Churches. A Chinese version of the Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS) was administered to a stratified sample of 820 adult learners and 210 youth learners, and a modified version of the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Church Programs, Church Workers