This project aims to develop a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) curriculum guide and resources to teacher educators for nurturing pre-service teachers’ PKM competencies and instructional design skills.

Project Start Year 2014 Chief Investigator(s): CHENG, Chi Keung Eric 鄭志強 (Dr CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明 as Co-Investigator)

In September 2011, as the Project Leader, another QEF successfully won a funding of HK$1,657,000 to organize another training course for vice-principals from Anglican (Hong Kong) Primary Schools Council. Finally, the project successfully concluded in . . .

Project Start Year: 2011 Chief Investigator(s): CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明

A QEF sponsored training programme provided for about one hundred either serving or aspiring vice principals from the 58 primary schools of the Catholic Diocesan of Hong Kong with rich teaching experiences and strong academic and administrative backg . . .

Project Start Year: 2010 Chief Investigator(s): CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明

The BLE is a two year school-based project, aiming at providing secondary teachers curriculum and pedagogical support in the teaching of the Basic Law and law-related concepts in the forthcoming New Senior Secondary Liberal Studies Curriculum.

Project Start Year: 2009 Chief Investigator(s): LEUNG, Yan Wing 梁恩榮 (Dr CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明 as Co-Investigator)

The Project is commissioned by the Education Bureau of the HKSAR Government aiming at providing 42 hours professional leadership trainings to four cohorts of 144 in-service middle managers of Hong Kong primary and secondary schools.

Project Start Year: 2007 Chief Investigator(s): YU, Huen 余煊 (Dr CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明 as Co-Investigator)

A pilot action research of three secondary schools on curriculum development and teaching of Law Related Education infused in Liberal Studies or Integrated Humanities. Curriculum, teaching plans and pedagogies of teaching of rule of law and human rig . . .

Project Start Year: 2007 Chief Investigator(s): LEUNG, Yan Wing 梁恩榮 (Dr CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明 as Co-Investigator)

The project aimed to utilize two MEd modules to identify the features of on-line learning and create the appropriate learning environment for the participants. The investigators also explored the potential of educational media as well as the capacity . . .

Project Start Year: 2007 Chief Investigator(s): KENNEDY, Kerry John 甘國臻 ; HUI, Ming Fai Margaret 許明輝 (Dr CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明 as Co-Investigator)

The project is designed to provide a learning experience for about 160 senior teachers from a wide range of Hong Kong secondary schools to enable them to assume a more effective leadership role in support of their school's improvement effort. The pr . . .

Project Start Year: 2006 Chief Investigator(s) : YU, Huen 余煊 (Dr CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明 as Co-Investigator)

The project is designed to provide a learning experience for about 240 senior teachers from a wide range of Hong Kong primary schools to enable them to assume a more effective leadership role in support of their school improvement effort. The project . . .

Project Start Year: 2005 Chief Investigator(s) : YU, Huen 余煊 (Dr CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明 as Co-Investigator)

This project's aim is to establish Intercultural studies in education as an area of strength in The Faculty of Education and Human Development. This will begin by comprising 4 research themes: i) young people in education; ii) educational leadership; . . .

Project Start Year: 2017 Chief Investigator(s) : HALSE, Christine Margaret (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Co-Investigator)

This research focuses on middle leaders’ interaction with senior leaders, other middle leaders, and informal leaders, and the tools and routines that they employ when engaging in these interactions. Framing the study around DL in IB continuum schools . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s) : BRYANT, Darren Anthony

Global education (GE) is a curriculum approach that aims to expand students’ global awareness and develop skills and values to participate in an interconnected world (Hicks, 2003). As enactors of curriculum, GE teachers are positioned at the center o . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s) : BRYANT, Darren Anthony

The project is to evaluate and explore ways to improve a LTTC-funded pilot project which aims at producing locally relevant resources and blended learning strategies for use in the targeted course, as well as to expand the pilot project with further . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s) : YUEN, Wai Kwan Gail 袁慧筠 (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Co-Investigator)

Conventionally, the work of secondary school middle leaders has focused on managerial tasks of subject area administration, but has not accounted for Middle Leaders’ (MLs) potential in leading innovative practice, participating in school-wide leaders . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s) : BRYANT, Darren Anthony

The overall purpose of the proposed project is to make use of systematic blended learning strategies to facilitate the contextualization of teaching and learning in multi-lingual classrooms. This, in turn, would help promote student engagement and ad . . .

Project Start Year: 2015 Chief Investigator(s): YUEN, Wai Kwan Gail 袁慧筠 (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Team Member)

This project aims to understand the implementation of medium of instruction policy at the institute and identify the ways to support staff and students to enhance students’ learning in courses with English as the medium of instruction.

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s) : CHOI, Tae Hee 崔太僖 (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Co-Investigator)

This project brings to gether colleagues across the Faculty of Education and Human Development (FEHD) to pilot Blenede Learning (BL) as a an innovation across the Institute. Drawing on collaborative models and emerging pedagogies, the study introduce . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): LAM, Bick Har 林碧霞 ; BRYANT, Darren Anthony ; ALVIAR THERESA PATRICIA B.

Professional development for tertiary teaching in Hong Kong is conducted in many different ways. Each institute of higher education has its own approaches, provisions and requirements, and varied resources to address this issue. In most of Hong Kong . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): LIM, Cher Ping 林质彬; HARBUTT, Darren (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Co-Investigator)

Exploring innovative pedagogies in blended learning: Collaboration, opportunities and challenges

Project Start Year: 2013 Chief Investigator(s): SZETO, Sing Ying Elson 司徒勝營 (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Co-Investigator)

This project aims to conduct one in-depth case study on middle leadership distribution in an international school in Hong Kong that offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). The research constitutes a pilot study for a subseque . . .

Project Start Year: 2013 Chief Investigator(s): BRYANT, Darren Anthony

This IRG was granted as a pilot study for an Early Career Scheme proposal. The study aims (a) to analyse how middle leadership is distributed; to uncover factors that facilitate or inhibit this distribution, (b) to analyze the differing impacts that . . .

Project Start Year: 2013 Chief Investigator(s): BRYANT, Darren Anthony

Raising standards of teaching and learning in schools is at the forefront of policy makers’ minds internationally. The importance attached to learning outcomes is obvious in the substance of key educational reforms across societies and contexts. H . . .

Project Start Year: 2012 Chief Investigator(s): WALKER, Allan David 汪雅量 (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Co-Investigator)

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a global leader in international education, encouraging students to be active learners, well-rounded individuals, and engaged world citizens. Having grown dramatically in recent years in response to the burgeon . . .

Project Start Year: 2012 Chief Investigator(s): WALKER, Allan David 汪雅量 (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Co-Investigator)

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Project Start Year: 2011 Chief Investigator(s): WALKER, Allan David 汪雅量 (Dr BRYANT, Darren Anthony as Co-Investigator)

Despite abundant research on early childhood education, the features and results of effective teaching in early childhood education are inconclusive. This study will adopt an educational effectiveness framework to explore factors at the classroom, sc . . .

Project Start Year: 2019 Chief Investigator(s): KO, Yue On James 高裕安

Reflection is defined as “deliberate thinking about action with a view to its improvement” (Hatton & Smith, 1995, p.40). Reflection is a valued emphasis in the current field experience requirements of the EDUHK. We will explore whether preservice tea . . .

Project Start Year: 2017 Chief Investigator(s): KO, Yue On James 高裕安

The study aims to examine and theorize the practice of state-funded outsourcing of English language education (ELE) focusing on its quality and equity, with reference to the Hong Kong context. Many governments have turned to state-funded outsourcing . . .

Project Start Year: 2017 Chief Investigator(s): CHOI, Tae Hee 崔太僖 (Dr KO, Yue On James 高裕安 as Collaborator)

The proposed study will adopt two theoretical perspectives, professional capital and ambidexterity, to explain schools’ change efforts and related policies to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education (Curriculum Devel . . .

Project Start Year: 2017 Chief Investigator(s): KO, Yue On James 高裕安

The project aims at exploring the perceptions of principals and teachers on leadership practices and leadership development programmes in Hong Kong. The research will adopt a qualitative design, incorporating multi-site qualitative case studies, and . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s): KO, Yue On James 高裕安

Though about twenty publications in the literature have discussed the roles and functions of SSBs since 2000, none of them studied SSBs exclusively. Therefore, the accounts of these studies regarding the views of SSBs are not grounded on empirical fi . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s): KO, Yue On James 高裕安

With an international perspective and a particular focus on secondary education, we aim to: 1) Investigate and improve the cross-cultural validity of instruments (observations and student questionnaires) measuring teaching practices 2) Enable the . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s): MAULANA, Ridwan (Dr KO, Yue On James 高裕安 as Co-Investigator)

This pilot study will test and validate an instrument develop to measure teachers’ perceptions of inspiring teaching. This instrument is adapted from a classroom observation instrument we have developed to measure observed classroom practices assumed . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s): KO, Yue On James 高裕安

This pilot study will draw on findings of previous research on effective and inspiring teaching. Recent qualitative research findings on English teachers showed that characteristics of the teaching practices of inspiring teachers shared many similari . . .

Project Start Year: 2015 Chief Investigator(s): KO, Yue On James 高裕安

Governments in different parts of the world promote private participation in public education by delegating functions traditionally conducted by the state to third-party organizations. However, research has shown that the planning, implementation and . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): CHOI, Tae Hee 崔太僖 (Dr KO, Yue On James 高裕安 as Co-Investigator)

This pilot has three broad aims. First, we will test the ecological validity of various instruments in Hing Kong and Shenzhen settings as most of them are developed for overseas contexts. Second, we will explore the individual differences of children . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s) : KO, Yue On James 高裕安

This project aims to understand the implementation of medium of instruction policy at the institute and identify the ways to support staff and students to enhance students’ learning in courses with English as the medium of instruction.

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): CHOI, Tae Hee 崔太僖 (Dr KO, Yue On James 高裕安 as Co-Investigator)

This research is the Hong Kong part of an international and comparative study of school autonomy, leadership and learning involving 7 education systems functioning in Australia, Canada (Alberta), England, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel and Singapore. The . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): CHENG, Yin Cheong 鄭燕祥 (Dr KO, Yue On James 高裕安 as Co-Investigator)

The present study is aimed to enhance sense of agency and pedagogical awareness and subsequent lesson quality during teaching practicum. A digital course on classroom observation training with e-learning activities that require reflective engagement . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s) : KO, Yue On James 高裕安

Raising standards of teaching and learning in schools is at the forefront of policy makers’ minds internationally. The importance attached to learning outcomes is obvious in the substance of key educational reforms across societies and contexts. H . . .

Project Start Year: 2012 Chief Investigator(s) : WALKER, Allan David 汪雅量 (Dr KO, Yue On James 高裕安 as Co-Investigator)

The current study addresses two paradoxes in teaching and learning research. The first paradox is on the inconsistency in teaching effectiveness between and within teachers. Although both inspection and research evidence shows similar sets of charact . . .

Project Start Year: 2012 Chief Investigator(s) : KO, Yue On James 高裕安

The proposed systematic review of literature will attempt to track changes in knowledge production on educational leadership in non-East Asian regions in the last two decades. This review will share three common concerns found in the recent literat . . .

Project Start Year: 2012 Chief Investigator(s) : KO, Yue On James 高裕安

Hong Kong’s schools need teacher leadership to improve student learning and stay ahead of rapidly changing educational demands. For classroom teachers without formal leadership roles, they still need the capability to influence educational decisions . . .

Project Start Year : 2018 Chief Investigator(s) : LEE, Daphnee Hui Lin 李玟霖

This project seeks to map the Singapore Teacher’s professional identity through the way teachers in Singapore exercise Decisional Capital in the sense-making and interpretation of selective aspects of the Teacher Growth Model (TGM) (i.e. Ethical Educ . . .

Project Start Year: 2015 Chief Investigator(s) : LEE, Daphnee Hui Lin 李玟霖

This research aims to conduct a pilot study that will eventually lead to the full implementation of the research with an ECS grant application. The full implementation seeks to investigate the inter-play between Reflective Dialgoue (RD), Teacher Lead . . .

Project Start Year: 2015 Chief Investigator(s) : LEE, Daphnee Hui Lin 李玟霖

This research explores the conditions that may improve reflective dialogue by comparing interpretations and enactments of this practice in group-based professional learning. It draws upon the Principal Investigator’s previous research findings from a . . .

Project Start Year: 2015 Chief Investigator(s) : LEE, Daphnee Hui Lin 李玟霖

This mixed-methods study provides a baseline report of the Academy of Singapore Teachers’ (AST) implementation of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) in Singapore schools. Subscribing to the notion that values underpin dispositions, we employ a v . . .

Project Start Year: 2012 Chief Investigator(s) : LEE, Daphnee Hui Lin 李玟霖

Critical thinking and creativity are long-standing objectives in EdUHK strategic plans and within her generic intended learning outcomes (GILOs). Given considerable uncertainty existing in the process of conducting inquiry, students are required to m . . .

Project Start Year: 2018 Chief Investigator(s): WAN, Zhihong 萬志宏 ; LEE, Chi Kin John 李子建 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Investigator)

This project aims to (a) explore and examine innovative blended learning (BL) pedagogies that effectively integrate case-based learning (CBL) to enhance student engagement and learning of pre-service teachers, and (b) build professional capacity of B . . .

Project Start Year: 2017 Chief Investigator(s): LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開

This project will seek to enhance student learning outcomes by developing peer-and self-assessment (PASA) strategies and training resources. PASA are student-led assessment practices in which students provide peer- and self-feedback to enhance learni . . .

Project Start Year: 2017 Chief Investigator(s): YANG, Min 楊敏 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Investigator)

This project aims at enhancing student teachers’ understanding of emotion regulation and cultivating their capacity on emotion regulation to improve their performance in Field Experience. These have been achieved through the inclusion of an intervent . . .

Project Start Year: 2017 Chief Investigator(s): CHEN, Junjun 陳君君 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Investigator)

The project is to evaluate and explore ways to improve a LTTC-funded pilot project which aims at producing locally relevant resources and blended learning strategies for use in the targeted course, as well as to expand the pilot project with further . . .

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s): YUEN, Wai Kwan Gail 袁慧筠 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Principal Investigator)

Overall Aim: To explore how students’ development of higher-order thinking skills (HOTs) can be supported through the blended use of technology-enhanced formative assessment (TEFA) tasks and classroom reasoning (CR) tasks Project objectives: (1)To e . . .

Project Start Year: 2015 Chief Investigator(s): YANG, Min 楊敏 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Investigator)

The overall purpose of the proposed project is to make use of systematic blended learning strategies to facilitate the contextualization of teaching and learning in multi-lingual classrooms. This, in turn, would help promote student engagement and ad . . .

Project Start Year: 2015 Chief Investigator(s): YUEN, Wai Kwan Gail 袁慧筠 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Principal Investigator)

Despite the growing importance of mid-level teacher leaders i.e. teachers with formal positions, in school improvement in recent years, the understanding of their instructional leadership roles and how they exercise leadership are unclear. The defic . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開

This research is the Hong Kong part of an international and comparative study of school autonomy, leadership and learning involving 7 education systems functioning in Australia, Canada (Alberta), England, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel and Singapore. The . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): CHENG, Yin Cheong 鄭燕祥 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Investigator)

The objective of the project is to provide professional support to Macau teachers for the implementation of the General Studies curriculum guidelines into their classroom teaching. It aims also to enrich the ability of curriculum development of Macau . . .

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): CHENG, Nga Yee Irene 鄭雅儀 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Investigator)

Over the past decade, policymakers in East Asia have implemented new policies and programs aimed at increasing the capacity for leadership in schools (Cheng & Walker, 2008; Hallinger, 2011; Walker & Kwan, 2008). The rationale for overhauling school m . . .

Project Start Year: 2013 Chief Investigator(s): WALKER, Allan David 汪雅量 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Team Member)

Exploring innovative pedagogies in blended learning: Collaboration, opportunities and challenges

Project Start Year: 2013 Chief Investigator(s): SZETO, Sing Ying Elson 司徒勝營 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Co-Investigator)

The aim of this study is to explore the teachers’ perception of instructional leadership of mid-level teacher leaders. It intends to identify the ways and aspects that teacher leaders exercise their influences, which are significant to translate the . . .

Project Start Year: 2013 Chief Investigator(s): LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開

Recognising the importance to prepare students with ID at the senior secondary level for Liberal Studies / Independent Living (LS/IL), the project aims at providing a professional development training programme for frontline teachers of special schoo . . .

Project Start Year: 2011 Chief Investigator(s): SO, Wing Mui Winnie 蘇詠梅 (Dr LEE, Tai Hoi Theodore 李泰開 as Team Member)

The project aims at examining pre-service student teachers’ professional competence, teaching motivation, and professional learning experiences in initial teacher education.

Project Start Year: 2016 Chief Investigator(s): TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳

This project aims at developing high quality e/blended learning materials for the Honours Project I course of the five-year BEd programme.

Project Start Year: 2014 (Dr TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳 as Co-Principal Investigator)

The proposed study adopts a mixed methods research design, with data collection conducted with BEd Year 1 student teachers in Hong Kong and Macau respectively

Project Start Year: 2014 Chief Investigator(s): TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳

This project examines pre-service student teachers’ professional competence in relation to their teaching motivation, and professional learning in different aspects of initial teacher education. A mixed methods research design is adopted, with questi . . .

Project Start Year: 2013 Chief Investigator(s): TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳

Pilot Study on the Outcome-based Field Experience Framework

Project Start Year: 2012 Chief Investigator(s): YU, Wai Mui Christina 姚偉梅 (Dr TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳 as Co-Investigator)

Outcome-based Field Experience Framework

Project Start Year: 2011 Chief Investigator(s): YU, Wai Mui Christina 姚偉梅 (Dr TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳 as Co-Investigator)

The research project is a qualitative study on the practice of Assessment for Learning (hereafter, AFL) in classroom and school in Hong Kong. By examining 12 AFL cases, the project aims to seek understanding of 1. AFL practices in teaching & learning . . .

Project Start Year : 2007 Chief Investigator(s): TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳

The objectives of the study are: (1) To review the current situation of exportable higher education services in Hong Kong; (2) To analyze the conditions of the target markets (i.e. India, Malaysia, and Indonesia) for Hong Kong's education service pro . . .

Project Start Year : 2007 Chief Investigator(s): CHENG, Yin Cheong 鄭燕祥 (Dr TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳 as Co-Investigator)

The teaching development project consists of three components: 1) Assessment for Learning - We intend to form a team by crossing the boundary of individual modules aiming at revisiting the ways and methods of assessment being used in different module . . .

Project Start Year: 2006 Chief Investigator(s): PANG I WAH 龐憶華 (Dr TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳 as Co-Investigator)

This project covers both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The study is focused on: a) our BEd students' epistemological beliefs about learning and teaching; b) their beliefs when they enter out four-year BEd programmes and what are these be . . .

Project Start Year: 2006 Chief Investigator(s) : CHENG, May Hung May 鄭美紅 ; WONG, Kit Yi Angel 黃潔儀 (Dr TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳 as Co-Investigator)

The study aims at understanding the relationship between teacher commitment and teacher identity in the changing contexts of school organization, education policy, teacher policy and the wider social historical environments in Hong Kong. An in-depth . . .

Project Start Year: 2006 Chief Investigator(s): CHOI PIK LIN, JOCELYN 蔡碧蓮 (Dr TANG, Yee Fan Sylvia 鄧怡勳 as Co-Investigator)

A mixed methods research design will be used and surveys and interviews employed to assess how principal leadership affects teacher autonomy and self-efficacy.

Project Start Year : 2019 Chief Investigator(s) : WONG, Koon Lin 黃觀連

This study is to examine “good citizens” from the eyes of university youth in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan. “Today the dominant constructivist paradigm posits that youth are active constructors of meaning rather than passive recipients of ad . . .

Project Start Year : 2018 Chief Investigator(s) : WONG, Koon Lin 黃觀連

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Project Start Year: 2017 Chief Investigator(s): WONG, Koon Lin 黃觀連

The project has three broad objectives: (1) To identify the main reasons refugees come to Hong Kong and assess the implications for informing policy development, (2) To investigate and seek to understand the everyday experiences of refugees in Hon . . .

Project Start Year: 2015 Chief Investigator(s): KENNEDY, Kerry John 甘國臻 (Dr WONG, Koon Lin 黃觀連 as Team Member)

To develop guidelines and procedures for providing and supporting students’ WBL placements, for school-employers partnership as well as for assessing and recognizing WBL in NSS curriculum

Project Start Year: 2008 Chief Investigator(s): BAGNALL RICHARD GORDON (Dr WONG, Koon Lin 黃觀連 as Team Member)

The purposes of this project are to: (1) identify and articulate alternative approaches to implementing the ApL policy through the Phase Three (2006-08) trials by different tertiary providers in the six areas of study in ApL; (2) provide a critique o . . .

Project Start Year: 2007 Chief Investigator(s): BAGNALL RICHARD GORDON (Dr WONG, Koon Lin 黃觀連 as Team Member)

The project analyzed, with HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of creativity as case study, how schools can promote participatory citizenship through formal, informal and hidden curricula. . . .

Project Start Year : 2007 Chief Investigator(s) : YUEN, Wai Wa Timothy 阮衛華 ; LEUNG, Yan Wing 梁恩榮 (Dr WONG, Koon Lin 黃觀連 as Co-Investigator)