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Cheung, Kin; Chan, Eric S. W.; Ng, Jeremy; Tsang, Hilda; Leong, Hong-va – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Post-secondary admission and community college (CC) transfer are two common routes of entry to baccalaureate study. Previous studies comparing the academic performances of native and transfer students have generated inconsistent findings and, furthermore, they were largely conducted in Western educational contexts. This study compared the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Undergraduate Students, Two Year College Students
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Wong, Yi-Lee – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Social engagement of transfer students is of importance to their completion of university studies and thus to understanding whether community colleges could serve as an equalizer in higher education. One overlooked aspect is the social engagement of transfer students with native students, which is arguably contingent on a sense of legitimacy of…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Undergraduate Students, Young Adults, Student Characteristics
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Law, Vincent T. S.; Yee, Hilary H. L.; Ng, Tommy K. C.; Fong, Ben Y. F. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023
The adoption of online learning approach in education is becoming more popular around the world to overcome the time and spatial barriers of traditional face-to-face learning. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the normality of learning and avoiding face-to-face activities is one tactic to minimise the spread of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Community Colleges
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Shek, Daniel Tan Lei; Yu, Lu; Wu, Florence Ka Yu; Chai, Wen Yu – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
Under the new four-year undergraduate programme, a general education framework titled "General University Requirements" (GUR) has been developed and implemented since 2012/2013 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). To evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the GUR in its first year, focus group interviews with students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Undergraduate Students, General Education
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Lam, Ricky – TESOL Journal, 2015
This article describes a study which investigated how explicit strategy instruction may shape student use of metacognitive knowledge and in what ways this knowledge promotes self-regulation in the learning of writing. From a class of a 2-year associate degree programme in Hong Kong, which experienced a 15-week process-oriented writing course…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Leung, Chi-Hung; Ng, Chi Wing Raymond; Chan, Po On Ella – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2011
A total of 575 students from the Associate Degree Foundation Program and the Associate Degree Program participated in this study. The two purposes of this study were to use the time series between/within experimental design to examine whether participation in co-curricular activities could (1) enhance student learning effectiveness and (2) have…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Associate Degrees, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries