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Direct linkHuan Li; Jisun Jung; Hugo Horta – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
Research on the career trajectories of doctoral recipients often assumes that all PhD students begin in roughly the same starting position. Consequently, the impact of pre-programme experiences remains understudied. This qualitative study draws on 59 interviews with PhD students studying in mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the influence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Masters Programs, Prior Learning
Zhang, Li-fang; Horta, Hugo; Jung, Jisun; Chen, Gaowei; Postiglione, Gerard A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
This research pioneered the investigation of the role of doctoral students' thinking styles in their program satisfaction and perceived intellectual competence. Participants were 285 STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) students in Hong Kong. Results showed that students' thinking styles as measured by the Thinking Styles…
Descriptors: Role, Cognitive Style, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs
Walker, Elizabeth – Language and Education, 2011
Educators worldwide have been attracted by lesson study for its teaching and learning enhancement potential. However, some believe it takes for granted language, out of which all teaching and subject matter are made. Employing a functional linguistics lens in an analysis of two second language science lesson studies, called "learning"…
Descriptors: High Schools, Academic Discourse, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Yuen, Mantak; Chan, Raymond M. C.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Lau, Patrick S. Y.; Lee, Queenie; Shea, Peter M. K.; Fong, Ricci W.; Chung, Y. B. – Pastoral Care in Education, 2010
This study explored Chinese adolescents' perceptions of their own life skills development and the importance they place on such skills. The study also investigated the within-school and outside-school influences that may help develop and enhance life skills development. Six focus groups involving 52 high school students were conducted, using a set…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Daily Living Skills
Walker, Elizabeth – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2012
This study reports the impact of a professional development course on experienced, highly qualified secondary school teachers of English as a foreign language in preparation for their becoming paid assessors of student teachers on practicum. The course concerned a literacy-oriented pedagogy informed by literacy pedagogical content knowledge…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Practicums, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Feedback (Response)
Wang, Carrie Lijuan; Ha, Amy – European Physical Education Review, 2009
This study aims to examine pre-service physical education (PE) teachers' perception of Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) in Hong Kong. Adopting a qualitative approach, 20 pre-service PE teachers (F = 8, M = 12) were recruited for individual semi-structured interviews. Most pre-service teachers responded that TGfU is beneficial for students…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Interviews
Phillipson, Sivanes – Educational Psychology, 2009
Vygotsky speculated that parents play an important role in the intellectual development of their children, and that this role includes the transfer of expectations related to their children's academic achievement. Consequently, different parents can produce different contexts of academic achievement for their children. The participants were 215…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Parent Aspiration, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedChan, David W.; Lin, Wen-Ying – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1996
Confirmatory analyses on the Hong Kong Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (HK-WISC) provided support for composite score interpretation based on the two- and three-dimensional models across age levels. Test sample was comprised of 1,100 children, ranging in age from 5 to 15 years at all 11 age levels specified by the HK-WISC. (KW)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Children
Leung, Doris Y. P.; Kember, David – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
The expansion in the number of people entering higher education has resulted in a substantial increase in the proportion of students enrolling in nontraditional modes, such as part-time study. This study examined the question of whether part-time study curtails the development of the types of intellectual capabilities needed for a knowledge-based…
Descriptors: Full Time Students, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Part Time Students
