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Xiao, Yangyu; Cai, Yuyang; Ge, Qianwen; Yang, Yan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Formative assessment has been considered an essential concept for motivating and improving learning. However, implementing formative assessment has been confronted with challenges in Confucian-heritage culture (CHC) contexts such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, where the atmosphere of high-stakes tests dominates at policy and classroom levels. Whether…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Confucianism, Academic Achievement, Formative Evaluation
Ng, Oi-Lam; Ting, Fridolin; Lam, Wai Hung; Liu, Minnie – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
It has been well documented that active learning (AL) improves student learning outcomes in education. This quasi-experimental study explores the effect of active learning on students' knowledge of calculus concepts, in the form of the Calculus Concept Inventory (CCI), regular assignment scores, and test scores, during an 8-week calculus tutorial…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Tutorial Programs
Gan, Zhengdong; Lee, Fung King Jackie – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
Although the importance of practicum for preservice teachers goes almost unchallenged, specific empirical evidence of growth in language teachers' practical knowledge in the under-researched context of preservice language teacher education is limited. Informed by both the reflective approach to teaching and an activity theory perspective, this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Classroom Techniques, Case Studies
Hall, Nathan C. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2019
In contrast to a burgeoning research literature on the role of emotions in learning and instruction in Western culture, research on how emotions impact student and teacher development in Asian countries is lacking. The present paper reviews seven publications included in the 2019 Special Issue of The Asia--Pacific Education Researcher examining…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Asians, Role, Teacher Attitudes
Zhu, Chang – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
Innovation in education is essential to meet the requirements for preparing the new generation for the more and more advanced society. This study examines the innovative teaching and learning strategies in school settings, the technologies in place, the pedagogical orientations, and the cultural environment as perceived by teachers and students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Educational Innovation, Case Studies
To, Ken Hang; Yin, Hongbiao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
The study examined how emotion regulation strategies were utilised by kindergarten principals to fulfil their leading roles. In-depth interviews and document analysis were conducted with five kindergarten principals in Hong Kong. The principals linked their emotions to the psychosocial climate of the kindergartens, highlighting that emotion…
Descriptors: Principals, Emotional Response, Self Control, Kindergarten
Liang, Weijun; Fung, Dennis – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
This article begins with a historical overview of the STEM education policy and related classroom practices in Hong Kong. Against the backdrop that the Hong Kong education authority has been promoting STEM education over the past few years, there has been a pressing need for effective strategies of implementing STEM education in the context of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Small Classes, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries
Lu, Jiafang – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2019
Despite the crucial importance of teacher impact for a wide range of student and teacher outcomes, it is not clear whether any individual-level factors precede teacher passion and if so how. Drawing on self-regulation theory and the self-regulatory strength model, I propose a theoretical reciprocal model in which teachers' sleep quality predicts…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Sleep, Prediction, Work Attitudes
Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018
Homework is an important and commonly expected part of students' out-of-class learning internationally; however, homework practices as experienced by teachers are little understood. This study draws on the experiences of two English language teachers working in primary schools in Hong Kong to explore how standardized homework practices affect…
Descriptors: Homework, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Chung, Edsoulla – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018
In second language (L2) vocabulary research, much attention has been paid to how learners can be supported to acquire vocabulary and how teachers can be better prepared to teach vocabulary in the language classroom. As research efforts have been devoted largely to exploring effective vocabulary teaching strategies and techniques, it remains…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Language Teachers
Chao, Chih Nuo Grace; McInerney, Dennis M.; Bai, Barry – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2019
This study investigated the relationships between students' self-efficacy and self-concept for learning languages and students' academic achievement in learning English and Chinese. 1092 eighth to eleventh graders from four Hong Kong secondary schools completed questionnaires reporting their self-efficacy, self-concept and academic results for…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Concept, Correlation, Second Language Learning
Lau, Wilfred W. F.; Yuen, Allan H. K. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
Teacher professional development has been considered as the most effective strategy to promote teacher change. However, this mostly presupposes that teacher professional development programmes can change teachers' attitudes and beliefs, subsequently change classroom behaviours and practices, and ultimately improve student learning outcomes. This…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Jackson, Liz – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
Improving mainstream perceptions of diversity in Hong Kong is fundamental to enhancing equality and human rights in the society in the future. The importance of mainstream members of society learning to recognize diversity with less prejudice undergirds many of the aims of a recent educational reform, Liberal Studies. This paper evaluates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education, Textbook Evaluation
Reading Performance and Self-Regulated Learning of Hong Kong Students: What We Learnt from PISA 2009
Lau, Kit-ling; Ho, Esther Sui-chu – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
The outperformance of Chinese students in large-scale international assessments has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers. This study explored the relationship between an important student factor, self-regulated learning (SRL), and Hong Kong students' reading performance on Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA). Using…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Metacognition, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Foreign Countries
Ho, Chun Sing Maxwell; Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Students in Asia usually receive financial literacy education in English. This study examines the foreign-language effects of financial literacy education both at home and school among secondary school students in Hong Kong (n = 1011). The study investigates the influence of language on students' risk-taking values, financial attitudes…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Second Language Learning, Risk, Values
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