Journal articleEarly Childhood Education Journal · April 1, 2026
This study examines Chinese preschool teachers’ evaluation beliefs (TEB), which encompass their attitudes, perceptions, and expectations toward teacher evaluation activities. These beliefs shape teachers’ engagement with evaluation and relate to profession ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Educational Research · January 1, 2026
The emotional labor of academic tutors within the private tutoring sector remains under-researched compared to that of teachers in mainstream educational contexts. Within a for-profit educational service setting, tutors navigate a dual identity as both pro ...
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Journal articleBritish Journal of Sociology of Education · January 1, 2026
Discipline and order hold high value in China, with teachers prioritizing classroom management strictly. Drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic study conducted in an elementary school in China, this article examines the social construction of the “troublem ...
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Journal articleZdm Mathematics Education · January 1, 2026
Out-of-field (OOF) teaching is a pervasive reality in education, especially for mathematics instruction. Research has documented OOF teachers’ pedagogical challenges and knowledge gaps. However, a singular focus on remediating these deficits may overlook O ...
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Journal articleStudies in Higher Education · January 1, 2026
How do organizations innovate under tight state control? This study examines this paradox through the lens of cross-border joint doctoral programs (CJDPs) developed by Chinese research institutes to circumvent strict doctoral admission quotas. Despite oper ...
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Journal articleJournal of Student Affairs Research and Practice · January 1, 2025
This study investigated experiences and decision-making strategies of Student Affairs Officers (SAOs) facing significant crisis at a Sino-foreign cooperative university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using habitual decision-making and 4 R crisis management ...
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Journal articleJournal of community psychology · March 2023
Peer effects are at the center of educational policy debates regarding school choice, ability grouping, and instructional design. Though emerging empirical evidence suggests that positive peer effects exist, less is known about how it affects students with ...
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Journal articleChinese Education and Society · January 1, 2023
The deficiency of educational resources is typically held as one of the major impediments to the educational development of Tibetans in China. Even though the Chinese state has committed to supportive policies and providing resources to the region, the aca ...
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Journal articleDiscourse · January 1, 2023
Typically understood through a universal-statist framework, modern schooling in contemporary China often contributes to the disenchantment of ethnic students. Based on year-long research in a Tibetan-serving secondary school, we provide additional insight ...
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Journal articleInternational Sociology · January 1, 2023
Academic tutoring as a supplementary form of education has quickly spread across China. Tutoring has attracted young college-educated practitioners and has become a highly organized industry. The industry is fast-churning and opportunistic. This article ex ...
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Journal articleAsia Pacific Education Researcher · December 1, 2022
Widening achievement gaps driven by socioeconomic disparity have become a global concern. Yet, few studies have been able to track the changes and developments of socioeconomic-achievement gaps (SES-achievement gaps henceforward) across time. Using PISA da ...
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Journal articleSocial Science Computer Review · October 2021
As the availability of online data grows rapidly, researchers are confronted with a pressing question: How should social scientists collect Internet data for research? This study focuses on one of the most commonly used data collection techniques: ...
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Journal articleSociological Methods & Research · February 2021
Analysts of discrete data often face the challenge of managing the tendency of inflation on certain values. When treated improperly, such phenomenon may lead to biased estimates and incorrect inferences. This study extends the existing literature o ...
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Journal articleFamilies, Relationships and Societies · November 2020
This study investigated variance in the structure, functions and implications of young adults’ dual filial piety beliefs in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan using the dual filial piety model (DFPM). A total of 879 Chinese college students participated i ...
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Journal articleThe Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata · September 2019
In this article, we describe the gidm command for fitting generalized inflated discrete models that deal with multiple inflated values in a distribution. Based on the work of Cai, Xia, and Zhou (Forthcoming, Sociological Methods & Research: Gen ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of school health · March 2018
BackgroundPrevious research has identified individual and school-level characteristics that are associated with sexual risk-taking, but the impact of school-level mechanisms on sexual risk-taking is not well understood. We examine the aggregated e ...
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Journal articleAsia Pacific Education Researcher · October 1, 2017
This study examined a new form of pervasive gender inequality: the gender gap among high achievers in math and considered its implication for developing STEM talents. Using the cross-nation Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA) data from b ...
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Journal articleEuropean Early Childhood Education Research Journal · July 4, 2017
As consumers of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), Chinese parents play a crucial role in the ongoing process of monitoring, evaluating, and improving the quality of ECEC in China. This study used questionnaires to solicit parental feedback on the ...
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Journal articleEducation and Science · April 27, 2016
Globalization in the 21st century provides fresh opportunities for new institutions to establish themselves. Through globalization, academic professionals, technological advancements, and capital can move across borders on a grand scale with great ...
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Journal articleAsia Pacific Education Review · December 1, 2015
Direct subsidy scheme (DSS) schools are a product of Hong Kong’s market-oriented educational reform, mirroring global reform that champions parental choice and school marketization. Such schools have greater autonomy in matters of curricula, staffing, and ...
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