Moving from a Personal to a Social Constructivist View of Learning: Implications for Support in the Student Teaching Experience 1     

May Cheng May Hung  Winnie So Wing Mui  Wong Yu Lai Wah  Lee Man Yuk Ching 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2003,23(1):85-98

Recently, the school and co‐operating teachers have an increasingly important role, by offering stronger support during the teaching practice. Being congruent with similar developments in teacher education programmes in other countries, this development in Hong Kong is strengthened by research studies examining the process of learning to teach. By arguing that the process of learning to teach can be examined from a personal constructivist view of learning, this paper examines the experience from the student‐teachers’ perspective. The finding reports on the problems perceived by the student‐teachers during the student teaching practice and the support provided by the co‐operating teachers. The problems encountered and the support obtained were compared and contrasted to reveal the possible roles of the co‐operating teachers. The process of learning to teach is extended from a personal view to include support from the social milieu. This paper proposes to consider the process from a social constructivist view of learning. Drawing on the findings, it concludes with implications on how the school and the teacher education institute can collaborate and support the student‐teachers from a social constructivist view of learning.

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Quality assurance in the Singapore education system in an era of diversity and innovation     

Pak Tee Ng 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2007,6(3):235-247

This paper describes how Singapore attempts to balance the need for quality assurance and the need for educational diversity and innovation. The Singapore experience shows that this is a delicate balance. On the one hand, to promote diversity and innovation, the government attempts to decentralise its power to the schools. On the other hand, for quality assurance, the government sets up quality structures that reassert the centrality of government control. This paper examines the implications of such a strategy and the challenges that schools face in navigating a new paradigm of diversity and innovation while satisfying the requirements of quality assurance.  相似文献   

Self-regulated learning in Singaporean context: a congeneric approach of confirmatory factor analysis     

Betsy Ng  C.K. John Wang  W.C. Liu 《International Journal of Research & Method in Education》2017,40(1):91-107

The motivated strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ) is widely used as a self-report instrument to assess students’ motivation and self-regulation. This study utilized the MSLQ Junior High to examine the motivational beliefs and self-regulation of secondary school students (Grades 8 and 9) from Singapore. The instrument was slightly modified and administered to students (N?=?610) in mathematics and science classes. In the first sample, 314 students completed the MSLQ Junior High while a second sample of 296 students completed the revised MSLQ Junior High. Using a congeneric approach of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the five-factor measurement model was determined with the first sample. This measurement model was further supported using a second sample and its goodness-of-fit indices were compared with other CFA models. Statistical findings showed that the five-factor structure of the revised MSLQ Junior High had a good model fit. The present study contributes a novel methodological approach by investigating the parsimony confirmatory factor structure of the revised MSLQ Junior High in local academic contexts.  相似文献   

Auditing for Score Inflation Using Self-Monitoring Assessments: Findings From Three Pilot Studies     

Daniel Koretz  Jennifer L. Jennings  Hui Leng Ng  Carol Yu  David Braslow  Meredith Langi 《Educational Assessment》2016,21(4):231-247

Test-based accountability often produces score inflation. Most studies have evaluated inflation by comparing trends on a high-stakes test and a lower stakes audit test. However, Koretz and Beguin (2010) noted weaknesses of audit tests and suggested self-monitoring assessments (SMAs), which incorporate audit items into high-stakes tests. This article reports the first three trials of SMAs, evaluating whether SMAs can detect inflation that had already been documented. The studies were conducted with mathematics tests in three grades. Despite severe conservative biases, the audit component functioned as expected in many of the trials. The difference in performance between nonaudit and audit items was associated with factors that earlier research showed to be related to test preparation and score inflation, such as scoring just below the Proficient cut in the previous year and school poverty. However, a number of null findings underscore the need for additional research into the design of audit items.  相似文献   

Effects of Cooperative Learning on Elementary School Children in Singapore     

Christine Lee  Maureen Ng  Rosalind Phang 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2002,22(1):3-15

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Parenting and childhood aggression in the Chinese context: an examination of parental responses,physical coercion and warmth     

Eva Yi Hung Lau 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2019,39(1):36-50

Parental response, physical coercion and warmth and their relationships with childhood aggression were assessed with 277 children (142 boys; M age = 56.5 months, SD = 10.93 months) in Hong Kong. Results indicated that both fathers and mothers reported significantly more intervention strategies in response to hypothetical vignettes of physical aggression than relational aggression. Both fathers’ and mothers’ self-reported physical coercion was positively correlated with boys’ and girls’ composite scores of physical and relational aggression as reported by teachers, fathers and mothers, whereas fathers’ self-reported warmth was associated with a lower level of physical and relational aggression in boys. Furthermore, maternal warmth moderated the association between physical coercion and girls’ relational aggression. Findings suggest that parents’ normative beliefs regarding relational aggression should be challenged and the general acceptability of parental control in the Chinese context does not necessarily imply the absence of a link with childhood aggression.  相似文献   

Researching High‐Achieving Students’ Appraisals of Classroom Motivation and Learning Using a Diary Technique     

Ng Chi‐hung 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2004,24(1):81-103

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Models of innovation scaling in Singapore schools: process objects as multi-level role clusters and outcomes—a multiple case study approach     

Tan  Mei Ying  Hung  David Wei Loong 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2020,21(4):553-571

Asia Pacific Education Review - Studying the processes involved in scaling technologically-mediated pedagogical innovations has moved into understanding how wider contexts relate to qualitative...  相似文献   

Understanding the Impact of Accountability on Preservice Teachers’ Decisions About Where to Teach     

Jennifer C. Ng 《The Urban Review》2006,38(5):353-372

Research has shown that individuals who become teachers are uniquely oriented to the psychic rewards of teaching such as connecting with students and making a difference. Yet, in the era of “No Child Left Behind”, emphasis upon test scores as indicators of student learning, competition within and between school districts, and threats of external sanctions seem to promote a different orientation to teachers’ work. This is especially the case in schools with limited human, social, physical, and cultural capital serving disproportionate numbers of low-income, racial/ethnic and linguistic minority students typically located in urban areas. Given the existing problem of teacher shortages in urban schools and the current impact of accountability, this study seeks to explore two questions: How do preservice teachers believe their aspirations to teach will be affected by the accountability movement? And how do these views affect their considerations about where to teach?  相似文献   

Coparenting,Parenting Stress,and Authoritative Parenting among Hong Kong Chinese Mothers and Fathers     

Eva Yi Hung Lau  Thomas G. Power 《Parenting, science and practice》2020,20(3):167-176

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