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Ning, Bo – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2019
In the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, students from Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taipei, where the classroom disciplinary climate of schools was relatively strict, were top performers in mathematics. In this study, two-level linear analyses showed that the classroom disciplinary climate of schools significantly affected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Tan, Charlene – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2019
This article analyses and compares the responses of parents to education policy initiatives in Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The education reform in three localities converges on changing an exam-centric culture and equipping students to thrive in a globalised world. Through a discussion of three representative policy initiatives--Direct…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Cheung, Kwok-cheung; Mak, Soi-kei; Sit, Pou-seong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
Secondary data analyses of large-scale international student assessment at the country level often reveal that educational systems which are high in academic achievement are found low in attitudinal outcomes of schooling, and vice versa. This is contrary to the non-negative attitude-achievement relationship frequently found at the student…
Descriptors: School Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Vignettes
Wu, Xian; Huang, Futao – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
To attract and hire high-level international faculty to leading universities is an important task in building world-class universities in China. However, there is much left to explore and to understand about international faculty in China. Based on a brief review of China's higher education system and international faculty, findings from "A…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, National Surveys, Teacher Characteristics
A Multilevel Analysis of the Effects of Disciplinary Climate Strength on Student Reading Performance
Guo, Siwen; Li, Lingyan; Zhang, Danhui – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
Climate strength was first conceptualised in the organisational psychology literature as the within-group agreement on the perceptions of climate. In contrast to the deep study of climate level, climate strength has not been clarified by school climate research. The purpose of this cross-cultural study is to identify the main effect of…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Zhang, Jia; Sun, Yuantao – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
This mixed-method study developed a conceptual model for understanding the characteristics of professional learning communities (PLCs) in Chinese context. Exploratory qualitative interviews were first conducted to examine the characteristics of PLCs in several schools in Shanghai, China, through which an initial conceptual model was resulted.…
Descriptors: Models, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Mixed Methods Research
Cai, Huiying; Gu, Xiaoqing; Wong, Lung-Hsiang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2017
This paper reports a study on developing an assessment inventory of Chinese learners' competencies as needed for the twenty-first century. In creating the instrument, three relevant twenty-first century competency frameworks were referenced: from the OECD, the European Council, and the USA. The preliminary version of this instrument, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Measures (Individuals), Critical Thinking
Zhang, Xiao Feng; Ng, Ho Ming – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
Literature has confirmed that teacher appraisal can and should facilitate the professional development of teachers. In the past, teacher appraisal in China has been conducted mainly for administrative purposes; nowadays, it is increasingly being viewed as a means of teacher professional development. However, the way in which teacher appraisal…
Descriptors: School Culture, Teacher Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
Yan Cheung, Hoi – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2004
The previous study demonstrated that the Chinese version of the PSSM scale was applicable for use by Hong Kong students, and in this study, the scale was also found to be workable for the measurement of Shanghai students' psychological sense of school membership. The only difference found in the 18-item PSSM scale distributed to Shanghai and Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Psychology, Comparative Analysis