[shared_counts] Authors: Dr. Sung Tae Jang, Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong Policymakers and practitioners alike often make assumptions about racial or ethnical minority children based on their other identifying features. For example, in the U.S., it is often presumed that racially and ethnically diverse students lack English language proficiency, while in Hong Kong,
[shared_counts] Authors: Nutsa Kobakhidze and Alex Tsaloukidis The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges for the education sector. School closures and remote instruction disrupted learning for millions of students worldwide, amounting to what experts had called “a global education crisis”. In response to these disruptions, private tutoring has gained prominence for its potential to mitigate learning
[shared_counts] Authors: Dr Wang Dan, Associate Professor, SCAPE Yuan Teng, Assistant Professor, Central China Normal University China is perhaps best known for its recent explosions in economic growth and geopolitical power in recent years. Less known to the outside world is the enduring challenges in China’s rural communities. The past decades have witnessed the brain
[shared_counts] Authors: Dr. Priya Goel, Assistant Professor; Rubén Sanchez, Doctoral Candidate; Lihuan Chen, Doctoral Candidate; and Clive Lee, Doctoral Candidate A Proposition: Literature Review as the Foundation of Becoming a Scholar The literature review is arguably the heart and soul of doctoral dissertations. A research investigation in its own right, the review of literature develops
Author: David Carless, Professor Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong A team of Faculty of Education colleagues has just concluded a teaching development project investigating the interface between change and feedback in higher education. Our main goals were twofold: to enhance our feedback practices; and understand drivers and barriers to change in tertiary-level feedback
[shared_counts] Author: Dr Tan Cheng Yong Most of us may have heard the refrain about how students’ social origins such as socioeconomic status (SES) can have a large influence on their academic achievement and by extension, occupational and life trajectories. Perhaps no scholars have catapulted this realization as prominently as Coleman and his colleagues (1966)
[shared_counts] Authors: Dr Hugo Horta, Mr Huan Li Our current research project aims to explore the decision-making of PhD students and PhD holders concerning their past and future career trajectories in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Comprehending decisions from a reflective perspective concerning expected and experienced educational and career trajectories is important because
[shared_counts] Authors: Lijun Fan, Dr. Lili Yang The 21st-century academia is marked by the wide use of academic research databases (e.g. Web of Science and Scopus) and their dominance in academic publishing. These databases have made significant contributions to promoting knowledge dissemination and academic exchange at global, regional, and national levels. With access to a
[shared_counts] Authors: Anna Julia Fiedler & Dr. Frank Reichert Photo: Protest barricades near The University of Hong Kong in autumn 2019. Youth activism around the globe shows that young people are interested in specific political issues and often prefer less hierarchical forms of activism (Miranda et al., 2020). Furthermore, social media and online platforms have
[shared_counts] Author: Dr. Juuso Henrik Nieminen Assessment largely fails to meet the needs of the diverse student populations in higher education. For example, exams have been shown to create barriers for diverse learners, such as students with disabilities (Nieminen, 2022a, 2022b). While assessment is often designed from the viewpoint of how it supports learning, less