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Katrina Laguarda; Haiwen Wang; Linda Shear – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2024
By the end of the 2021-22 school year, CoolThink@JC had scaled successfully to 131 Hong Kong primary schools. This topical report explores the relationship between CoolThink implementation and student learning during the 2021-22 school year in schools in their first or second year of adopting CoolThink@JC. The report draws on data collected for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Achievement Gains, Problem Solving
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Lau, Kit Ling – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2013
The study aimed to explore Chinese language teachers' perception and implementation of instruction based on self-regulated learning (SRL) in a researcher-teacher collaborative project. The participants were 31 teachers and their 10th grade students, from six secondary schools in Hong Kong. The findings of questionnaires, interviews, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Interviews, Observation
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Cheung, Alan C. K.; Wong, Ping Man – International Journal of Educational Management, 2012
Purpose: The objective of this paper was to examine key hindering and facilitating factors in schools during the first stage of the curriculum reform (2001-2006) in Hong Kong and to identify key strategies to address these challenges. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 150 primary and 120 secondary schools with 7,869 key stakeholders…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Measures (Individuals), Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Wu, Jing-Jyi; Albanese, Dale – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2010
This commentary looks at the contributions and future research implications of the four articles in this Special Issue of "Thinking Skills and Creativity" to the fields of creativity and creativity education, both in culture-specific and culture-general terms. The articles included in this Special Issue draw attention to issues of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Cheng, Vivian M. Y. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2011
Infusing creativity elements into regular classroom was an important movement in recent Asian educational reforms. A large-scale research study was conducted in Hong Kong to explore the possibilities, outcomes and difficulties of this kind of curriculum change from students' perspectives. Based mainly on Western creativity literature, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Creativity, Transfer of Training
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Cheng, Vivian M. Y. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2010
This study aimed at revealing the problems experienced by primary teachers of Hong Kong SAR, China, in their initial school-based creativity teaching, through reviewing the teacher reflections in 75 action research reports. A number of teacher tensions and dilemmas emerged. Lack of teaching time and undesirable student performance in creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness
Wong, Ruth M. H. – Online Submission, 2008
English competency is known as one of the crucial skills in various social contexts in Hong Kong. In tertiary educational setting, English courses do not focus solely on the development of the four language skills. Rather, they put emphasis on the application of English Language for academic use or instrumental use. This paper will investigate the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Study Skills, Language Skills
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Cheng, Gary – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2009
Electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) is no longer a new term in the area of educational research. It has been widely adopted by various tertiary institutions as a learning and assessment tool in different countries. A major feature of an ePortfolio is that it supports lifelong learning by archiving and showcasing selected artifacts from individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Curriculum Implementation, Program Implementation