Teachers’ perceptions of Incorporated Management Committees as a form of school-based management in Hong Kong     

Shereen M. C. Cheung  Flora L. F. Kan 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2009,10(2):139-148

The policy of the registration of School Management Committees (SMCs) as Incorporated Management Committees (IMCs) has led to a dispute between the School Sponsoring Bodies (SSBs) and the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB, renamed Education Bureau, EDB in July 2007) and has caused great tension between the two parties. However, in this heated debate, little has been heard about teachers’ opinions on this important issue. Therefore, this study aims at finding out teachers’ perceptions of the newly proposed school management system and whether they are willing to participate in IMCs. In this study, 585 questionnaires were collected from a total of 652 which had been distributed to 25 schools (19 secondary schools and 9 primary schools), and five teacher representatives from five schools were involved in post-survey interviews. Findings from this study show that while the teachers were generally in favour of working hand in hand with the public (e.g. parents, alumni and members of the local community) for the betterment of schools, they had reservations about the registration of SMCs as IMCs because there would be legal implications of the Committees. Second, the teachers saw the IMCs as an administrative tool to improve school management, rather than as a means of enhancing students’ learning outcomes. Third, teachers were hesitant about taking up the posts of teacher managers due to the unpredictable workload and legal liability involved. Finally, teachers from Christian schools were generally much less in favour of including representatives from the public and the registration of the SMCs as IMCs. The findings imply that the EMB has a responsibility to clarify the legal implications of IMCs and the ways in which school representatives’ interests can be safeguarded. At the same time, SSBs need to regulate their management pattern and allow more transparency and accountability in managing their schools.

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What Matters to Students’ Satisfaction: A Comparative Study between Vertical and Horizontal Transfer Students at 4-year Universities     

Yi Leaf Zhang  Frankie Santos Laanan  Maria Adamuti-Trache 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2018,42(12):878-892

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POSTCOLLEGE EARNINGS OF FORMER STUDENTS OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: Methods, Analysis, and Implications     

Jorge R. Sanchez  Frankie Santos Laanan  W. Charles Wiseley 《Research in higher education》1999,40(1):87-113

In the wake of new federal and state mandates,community colleges are faced with demands to provideaccountability reports on student outcomes. With the useof the Employment Development Department Unemployment Insurance (EDD-UI) wage record data, along withthe California Community Colleges Chancellor's OfficeManagement Information System administrative database,this study sought to investigate the extent to which completing an associate degree andvocational certificate impacts the postcollege earningsof students. Based on information from 700,564 studentsfrom California community colleges during the 1992-93 academic year, the findings suggest thatstudents' gains from first year out of college to thirdyear out will differ by age group. Among economicallydisadvantaged students, a strong positive relationship exists between educational attainment andpostcollege gains. An important finding among vocationalstudents is that as women complete more education, theearnings gap closes between men and women. Finally, this study raises several policy implicationsand presents suggestions for future research.  相似文献   

Why do Chinese students cheat? Initial findings based on the self-reports of high school students in China     

Hoi Yan Cheung  Joseph Wu  Yansheng Huang 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2016,43(2):245-271

Academic dishonesty is recognised as a serious problem in Australia, and educators have been searching for ways to prevent its escalation. It is important to understand what factors influence cheating. This study used a sample of 446 grade 7 to 9 students, 160 from Macao and 286 from Zhuhai in China, to examine the personal and contextual aspects of academic dishonesty. The findings suggest that involvement and task orientation in the classroom environment (contextual aspects) and intrinsic value and utility value (personal aspects) are associated with students’ attitudes toward the acceptability of cheating and cheating behaviour in mathematics. Some suggestions for reducing academic dishonesty are included in the paper.  相似文献   

Proposing a framework to assess Internet usage in university education: an empirical investigation from a student's perspective   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Waiman Cheung  Wayne Huang 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2005,36(2):237-253

University administrators are continuously investing in Information Technology (IT) to support learning and help deal with educational budget cuts. Instructors are increasingly making their teaching materials available on the Internet. While administrators and instructors would like to make the Internet an effective educational tool, they need to understand what their students’ attitudes towards using it are. Since the use of the Internet in university education is still in its early stages, many issues regarding its use have not been fully addressed. This study was conducted to provide a better understanding of how the Internet is used in university learning from a student's perspective. Our research framework is based on the Theory of Reasoned Action, Technology Acceptance Model, and IT Diffusion Process Model. We use a survey conducted among university students to explore these issues. Research findings provide some useful insights for university administrators and educators.  相似文献   

Emotional responses to child sexual abuse: a comparison between police and social workers in Hong Kong     

Cheung M  McNeil Boutte-Queen N 《Child abuse & neglect》2000,24(12):1613-1621

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Integrating interactive learner-immersed video-based virtual reality into learning and teaching of physical geography     

Morris Siu-Yung Jong  Chin-Chung Tsai  Haoran Xie  Frankie Kwan-Kit Wong 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2020,51(6):2064-2079

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Measuring the degree of implementation of school-based assessment schemes for practical science     

Dr Derek Cheung  John Hattie  Robert Bucat  Graham Douglas 《Research in Science Education》1996,26(4):375-389

The study described in this paper investigated the degree of implementation of school-based assessment schemes for practical science. An assessment scheme in Hong Kong was used as the context for the research. Five dimensions of implementation were identified and a conceptual framework was built by breaking down each dimension into attributes and these into content areas. The research method used in the study incorporated some modifications on most past designs in order to determine adequately the construct validity of data and to examine any method-specific biases. Three measuring instruments (namely, a student questionnaire, a teacher questionnaire and an observation schedule) were designed. The construct validity of student data was demonstrated through confirmatory factor analysis and multitrait-multimethod analysis. Comparative analyses of students' perceptions, teacher self-reports and independent observational data resulted in convergent findings for only three out of the ten attributes of implementation.  相似文献   

Science Learning Outcomes After Accounting for Opportunity to Learn: The Effect of Gender and Science Stream     

K C Cheung 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》1992,12(1):68-78

This article examines the effects of gender and Science stream differences on the cognitive and affective outcomes of schooling at the Sixth Form level (Grade 12) in Hong Kong, using data collected for the Second IEA International Science Study (SISS). It seeks to derive some dimensions of gender difference on these outcomes amongst the physical and biological Science stream pupils. The problem of the confounding effect of gender and Science stream, and the pattern of curriculum implementation effect across Science streams and courses are handled. Social and psychological implications of the findings for curriculum developers, teachers and pupils are discussed. Results of the analyses provide a basis for comparisons across school systems participating in the SISS surveys.  相似文献   

Effectiveness of Parent–Child Number Board Game Playing in Promoting Chinese Kindergarteners’ Numeracy Skills and Mathematics Interest     

Sum Kwing Cheung  Catherine McBride 《Early education and development》2017,28(5):572-589

Research Findings: In Study 1, we observed 32 Chinese kindergarteners playing a number board game with their caregivers in dyads. Number board game playing provided important opportunities for kindergarteners and their caregivers to talk about an array of number concepts, but their numeracy-related exchanges rarely went beyond counting. In Study 2, 88 Chinese kindergarteners and their parents were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 groups, namely, the game with parent training group, the game without parent training group, the exercise book group, and the control group. After a 4-week intervention, kindergarteners in the 3 treatment groups who began as relatively unskilled in numeracy showed comparable improvement in 3 numeracy tasks, and the effect sizes were often larger in the game with parent training group than in the game without parent training group. Moreover, kindergarteners in the 2 game groups tended to show relatively heightened mathematics interest. Practice or Policy: Findings of these 2 studies suggest that number board game playing has the potential benefit of promoting kindergarteners’ numeracy competence and mathematics interest. Training of parents might even optimize kindergarten children’s gains from parent–child number board game playing.  相似文献