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Chinese School Teachers' Conceptions of High-Stakes and Low-Stakes Assessments: An Invariance Analysis
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Chen, Junjun; Teo, Timothy – Educational Studies, 2020
The study investigated teachers' conceptions of high-stakes and low-stakes assessments with a sample of 1,013 school teachers from China. In general, the assessment model indicated that school teachers in this study agreed with the most factors. They demonstrated a broad understanding of the improvement, evaluation, control, irrelevance, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries, Assessment Literacy
Teacher Emotions in Their Professional Lives: Implications for Teacher Development
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Chen, Junjun – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
This study aimed at understanding teacher emotions through interviewing 25 and surveying 1,492 primary teachers in China using a mixed method. Content analysis was employed to analyse the data using the five nested ecological systems -- microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macro-system, and chronosystem. Statistical techniques such as mean score,…
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, Psychological Patterns, Professional Development, Elementary School Teachers
Efficacious and Positive Teachers Achieve More: Examining the Relationship between Teacher Efficacy, Emotions, and Their Practicum Performance
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Chen, Junjun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2019
This study will examine the relationship between pre-service teachers' efficacy, emotion, and practicum performance score. A sample of 963 pre-service teachers was approached from four universities in China. This study used two self-reported instruments (The Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale and the Teacher Emotion Inventory) and the participants'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Self Efficacy, Practicums
Teachers' Emotional Experience: Insights from Hong Kong Primary Schools
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Wu, Zhenli; Chen, Junjun – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
This study aims to understand teacher emotions through interviewing 28 primary teachers in Hong Kong. The study employed content analysis to analyze the data. The results were allocated to three dimensions of teacher emotions--student and learning, teacher and teaching, and the contextual factors. These teachers described 78 emotions of which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Emotional Response, Role
Chinese Secondary School Students' Conceptions of Assessment and Achievement Emotions: Endorsed Purposes Lead to Positive and Negative Feelings
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Chen, Junjun; Brown, Gavin T. L. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2018
Student perceptions of the purposes of assessment have been shown to be significant predictors of self-regulated learning. Their relationship to achievement emotions is less well understood. This paper reports a survey study of Chinese middle and high school students (N = 1,393) self-reported conceptions of the purpose of assessment and their…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Statistical Analysis
University Students' Attitudes toward Physical Education Teaching
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Li, Fengjuan; Chen, Junjun; Baker, Miles – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2014
While there have been many studies into students' attitudes toward Physical Education at the school level, far fewer studies have been conducted at the university level, especially in China. This study explored 949 students' attitudes toward their university Physical Education experiences in four Chinese universities. An intercorrelated model of…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Physical Education Teachers, College Students