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Using EASY framework to facilitate economics students’ critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-04-18 Soon Yen Foo
Critical thinking (CT) is a 21st century skill that is essential for students to develop for the future workforce. One way that has found success in facilitating CT in students is asynchronous online discussions (AODs); however, the research does not reflect the impact of this medium specifically in the context of Economics education. This study therefore aims to investigate whether incorporating AODs
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A bibliometric review on latent topics and trends of the empirical MOOC literature (2008–2019) Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 Caixia Liu, Di Zou, Xieling Chen, Haoran Xie, Wai Hong Chan
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a popular learning mode in recent years, especially since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019, which had resulted in a significant increase in associated research. This paper presents a bibliometric review of 1078 peer-reviewed MOOC studies between 2008 and 2019. These papers are extracted from three influential databases, the Web of Science (WOS),
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Higher education teachers’ experiences of becoming research active: striving for university status in the Global South Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Joanna Joseph Jeyaraj, Navé Wald, Tony Harland
Higher education institutions are seen as pivotal for fostering national economic growth in a globalised knowledge economy. Conducting research is an important aspect of that role, and there is pressure on institutions to increase their knowledge production, as well as to offer advanced research degrees. This requires academics with doctoral level qualification who research in their field. Research
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Motivations and outcomes in dual-degree programs: insights from graduate scholarships for Indonesian civil servants Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 John P. Haupt, Agustian Sutrisno, Marko S. Hermawan
The present study investigates the motivations and outcomes of Indonesian civil servants and prospective civil servants who received Indonesian, Australian, and Japanese government scholarships to study for graduate dual-degrees domestically in Indonesia and internationally in either Australia or Japan. A survey was administered to 162 current and former dual-degree students, followed by ten semi-structured
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Carving out a hybrid space: a self-study of contextualizing teaching for social justice in South Korea Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Hyunhee Cho
Throughout the world, issues of justice, equity, and diversity have been extensively discussed and are now ubiquitous in educational research circles under the overarching term, teaching for social justice. The expansion and worldwide popularity of teaching for social justice is promising, but it opens up new challenges with contextualization: situating the global-scale discourse within local and national
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NEP 2020: few highlights in higher education Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Sukanta Kumar Naskar, Sushovan Chatterjee
The Indian government replaced the old National Policy on Education, framed in 1986, with the New Education Policy (NEP) of 2020 on last July 2020. The policy is a comprehensive framework for elementary education to higher education as well as vocational training in both rural and urban India. The present report is an earnest attempt to highlight the higher education system in India from the perspectives
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An evaluation of academic achievements through the use of argument and concept maps embedded in argumentation based inquiry Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Esra KABATAŞ MEMİŞ, Esma KARAKUŞ
This mixed-method study aimed to compare the academic achievements of students to their use of argument maps and concept maps in learning environments designed for argument-based instruction (ABI). The study was conducted during the spring term of the academic year 2018–2019 with the students of three sections of grade six instructed by the same teacher at a secondary school in the province of Kastamonu
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Decentralization and recentralization of Korean curriculum documents 2012–2017: a novel approach to text mining in curriculum studies Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Gyeong-Geon Lee, Wonhyeong Jang, Hun-Gi Hong
This study adopted a novel text mining (TM) technique in curriculum studies to analyze the multi-layered South Korean curriculum document (CD) system from 2012 to 2017. A total of 716 CDs from the national, regional, and school levels corresponding to 23.4 million Korean characters were examined through keyword frequency analysis, topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), construction
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Reflexive language attitudes and language practices among school-aged Chinese Australian immigrant bilinguals Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Yilu Yang
This study examines the reflexivity of immigrant children in forming their language attitudes (LAs). Considering the special cultural environment of the Chinese community in Australia, which refers to the community’s well-matched cultural powers with Australia, this research explored Chinese Australian children’s conflicting but reflexive LAs and language practices. By drawing on in-depth qualitative
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The relationship between stress and life satisfaction of Korean University students: mediational effects of positive affect and self-compassion Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Hyojin Cho, Sung-Kyung Yoo, Chan Jeong Park
The present study aimed to examine the mediational effects of self-compassion and positive affect in the relationship between stress and life satisfaction of South Korean university students. Questionnaires regarding stress, self-compassion, positive affect, and life satisfaction were distributed to 1,087 university students. Structural equation modeling was conducted to confirm the direct and indirect
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The mediating role of tolerance in the relationship between cultural intelligence and xenophobia Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Kasim Karataş, Ibrahim Arpaci
The study investigated the mediating role of tolerance in the relationship between cultural intelligence and xenophobia. The study further investigated the moderating role of gender in the relationships between cultural intelligence, tolerance, and xenophobia. A structural equation modeling-based mediation and multi-group analysis were employed using the data collected from 543 teacher candidates.
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Promoting student achievement in high school using school funding: evidence from quantile regression discontinuity design Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Dongsook Han, Sangheon Kim, Heeran Park, Hosung Sohn
Even though there are many quasi-experimental research in recent literature, there is still no consensus on whether an increase in school funding improves student achievement. Leveraging a natural experiment in South Korea, this study exploits the discontinuity in school funding rules to identify the impact of increased funding on the test scores of high-school students in a national assessment exam
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Learning in the shadows: parents’ investments, family burden, and students’ workload in Dhaka, Bangladesh Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-02-07 Rafsan Mahmud
Privatization, marketization, investment, and competition of education have become a global phenomenon with significant implications. While research on demand and patterns of shadow education are increasingly available across the world, very little is known about the scope of parents’ investments, family burden, and students’ workload. This paper focuses on shadow education in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Shadow
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Joint-training programs in Vietnam: operation and quality management aspects gathered from institutional practices Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-02-06 Cuong Huu Nguyen, Thuy Thi Nhan, Hien Thu Thi Ta
This study examines joint-degree training in a higher education context in Vietnam, especially its different operation and quality management aspects. First, it reviews program mobility in international practices, from which it identifies critical requirements for maintaining quality and sustainable transnational partnerships. It then discusses the rationales, government policies, recent developments
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Person-to-person interactions in online classroom settings under the impact of COVID-19: a social presence theory perspective Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Tai-ming Wut, Jing Xu
The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled universities and higher education institutions to largely adopt online teaching to avoid face-to-face interactions. Instructors and students teach and learn through computers, laptops, and mobile phones with Internet connections. This qualitative study conducted in-depth interviews with 17 university students and 7 instructors. It found that student-to-instructor
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Professional learning communities at a primary and secondary school network in India Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Siamack Zahedi, Camille L. Bryant, Anuj Iyer, Rhea Jaffer
Schools in India typically provide teachers with professional development in the form of workshops with a one-size-fits-all approach. However, a large body of international studies show this to be ineffective in transforming classroom practice, and the draft National Education Policy of India released in 2020 lists several shortcomings of current in-service professional development practices across
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When is a performance-approach goal unhelpful? Performance goal structure, task difficulty as moderators Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Jong-Baeg Kim, Kyoung-Suk Moon, Soowon Park
This study assessed the combined effects of students’ achievement goal orientations (performance-approach goal and mastery-approach goal) and contextual factors (goal structures and task difficulty) on their performance. Researchers first asked 313 junior students about their achievement goal orientations and then randomly assigned them to one of four experimental conditions, all involving task difficulty × goal
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Determinants of Global Korea Scholarship students’ word-of-mouth about Korea Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Kadir Jun Ayhan, Moamen Gouda
International student-mobility programs are one of the core programs countries employ as part of their public diplomacy portfolio. Policymakers assume that sponsored foreign students would develop positive beliefs about and emotions towards the host country, which in turn would lead to favorable behavior towards it. However, evaluations of such programs from a public diplomacy perspective are rare
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Policy borrowing and developing knowledge economies in GCC countries: a critique from a Human Capital Theory perspective Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Reem Khalid Abu-Shawish, Michael H. Romanowski, Tasneem Amatullah
Globalization presents Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries with opportunities for economic growth and transformation, as many of these nations face economic challenges such as the need for a diversified knowledge-based economy because of the finite resource of hydrocarbons. This requires the development of human capital providing workers with new and advanced skills and competencies. Education
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Conscientious internationalisation in higher education: contextual complexities and comparative tensions Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Susan Ledger, Colleen Kawalilak
In this paper, authors focus on how internationalisation is defined, interpreted, and responded to by Universities in Australia and Canada, two decades after de Wit’s (Strategies for the internationalisation of higher education. A comparative study of Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA. European Association for International Education, Amsterdam, 1995) comparison of internationalisation in four
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Investigating the impact of TPACK development course on pre-service science teachers’ performances Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 İdris Aktaş, Haluk Özmen
The aim of this study is to investigate the Technology Pedagogy and Content Knowledge (TPACK) development of pre-service science teachers (PSTs) who participated in a TPACK Development Course (TPACK-DC) that consisted of three stages: a training course, lesson plans involving the application of micro-teaching, and school application. This study was carried out with six PSTs selected according to the
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Integrating competency-based education with a case-based or problem-based learning approach in online health sciences Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Ilse Johanna Sistermans
In the current competitive and globalized economy, employers and professional organizations call for higher education institutions to deliver graduates with relevant competencies and skills. In response, a growing number of higher educational institutions is introducing competency-based education. This is particularly true for health science programs, which have a tradition of applying a case-based
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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 Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Mei Ying Tan, David Wei Loong Hung
Studying the processes involved in scaling technologically-mediated pedagogical innovations has moved into understanding how wider contexts relate to qualitative outcomes (depth, shift in reform ownership and spread). Understanding patterns in this relationship has been complicated by the diverse outcomes for a single innovation. This study examined the processes involved in scaling innovations, using
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An activity theory approach toward teacher professional development at scale (TPD@Scale): A case study of a teacher learning center in Indonesia Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Cher Ping Lim, Juliana, Min Liang
Continuous teacher professional development (TPD) ensures that teachers have the capacity to continually plan and implement quality teaching and learning that supports students in achieving their expected program/course learning outcomes. However, teachers’ access to quality TPD is a challenge due to geographical limitations, gender, special needs, marginalized communities, and the government’s policies
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Academic resilience among international students: lived experiences of postgraduate international students in Malaysia Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh
In previous studies, scholars have noted that challenges experienced by international students have an impact on their academic success. However, limited research has been conducted on how international students overcome the challenges they face in non-Western countries, such as Malaysia. This paper aims to fills this gap by investigating essential resilience strategies adopted by international students
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Symbolic habitus and new aspirations of higher education elites in transitional Myanmar Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Moon Suk Hong, You Jin Chun
This paper examines critical aspects of the birth of the new generation of Myanmar’s emerging elite groups and their roles in the society based on in-depth qualitative research conducted in two universities in Yangon. It particularly pays close attention to the critical roles of the two universities – as political, social and knowledge institutions – in the formation of the new elite groups in Myanmar
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Development of the Korean teachers’ occupational work ethic scale: its factor structure, validity and reliability Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-10-10 HwaChoon Park, Roger B. Hill
The Teachers’ Occupational Work Ethic Scale (TOWES) was developed for assessing teachers’ work ethic in Korea. Based on an extensive literature review of work ethic instruments and focus group interviews of 15 principals from elementary, middle, and high schools, 77 initial items were developed. Content and face validity of the items were examined by a panel of experts. A total of 388 teachers across
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Teacher effect change model: latent variable regression 5-level hierarchical model Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Kilchan Choi
This paper proposes a teacher effect change model in the form of a latent variable regression 5-level hierarchical model (LVR-HM5). Using multiple years of student achievement data, the LVR-HM5 attempts to simultaneously estimate teacher effect as well as teacher initial status and the gap parameter to model the change of such latent parameters over time. The gap parameter, the latent variable regression
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The longitudinal relationships between undergraduate students’ competencies and educational satisfaction according to academic disciplines Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 Ji-Won Kim, Sun-Geun Baek
This study analyzed the longitudinal relationships between undergraduate students’ competencies and educational satisfaction according to academic disciplines. The data of 254 undergraduate students in one typical university (AA University in Gyeong-gi Province, South Korea) were used. Those students had responded repeatedly to both competencies and educational satisfaction scales during all three
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Impact of Korean students’ individual learning time on math performance: differential effect of teachers’ assessment competency Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Sangmin Byeon, Nayoung Kim
As the 2015 revised national curriculum is being implementing in Korea, a teacher’s assessment competency has become a point of focus for the potential enhancement of students’ self-directed learning. Relevantly, a teacher’s competency in student assessment is correlated to his/her individual feedback practices. Although students’ self-directed learning affects academic performance and may vary based
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Exploring the alleged effect of lower academic achievement after the free semester in Korean Middle Schools Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Hyekyung Jung, Young-Eun Kim, Insuk Kim
The Enforcement Decree of the Elementary and Secondary School Act (2015) mandates that from 2016 all middle schools in Korea must administer one semester as a free semester (FS), called an exam-free semester or, alternatively, a free learning semester. Consequently, some Korean parents and students have expressed a feeling of anxiety about having no exams during the FS. This anxiety arises primarily
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A bibliometric analysis of worldwide educational artificial intelligence research development in recent twenty years Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-08-08 Pu Song, Xiang Wang
Educational artificial intelligence (EAI) refers to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to support personalized and automated feedback and guidance in the educational field. Inevitably, it serves as a more important part of the educational system in the coming years. However, novel development in this field has been inadequately reviewed and conceptualized in a visualized, objective and comprehensive
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Supervisor style as a predictor of counseling supervision relationship quality and supervisee satisfaction: perceptions of U.S. and South Korean supervisees Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Ha Yan An, Rodney K. Goodyear, Young Seok Seo, Yunkyoung Garrison, Keun Young Baek, Hwa Jin Cho
This study tested a model of counseling supervisory process and outcome across two cultural contexts: one in the United States (U.S.) and one in South Korea. We hypothesized that (1) the supervisory alliance and supervisee nondisclosure would mediate the relationship between supervisor style and supervisee satisfaction and (2) the path coefficients of the model in the U.S. samples and South Korean
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Development of instructional design strategies for integrating an online support system for creative problem solving into a University course Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Cheolil Lim, Hyeongjong Han
This study examined three cases in which an online support system was utilized to enhance creative problem solving (CPS) in a higher education setting. This study aimed to review instructional design strategies that allow the integration of an online support system into a university course. Creativity, which is defined as the ability to generate a new and useful idea, is a key competency for students
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Developing critical thinking skills in the thinking-discussion-writing cycle: the argumentation-based inquiry approach Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Esra Kabataş Memiş, Büşra Nur Çakan Akkaş
This study aimed to investigate the effects of the argumentation-based inquiry (ABI) approach on the critical thinking skills of fifth-grade students in a secondary school using a hybrid method. Using an experimental research model, the study had a semi-experimental design form with pre-test and post-test control groups. It was conducted in a middle school in Kastamonu with fifth-grade students from
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Exploring the relationship between perfectionism and academic burnout through achievement goals: a mediation model Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Eunbi Chang, Hyunmo Seong, Sang Min Lee
This study investigated associations among perfectionism (i.e., perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns), achievement goals, and academic burnout among college students in South Korea, focusing on the mediating role of achievement goals. A total of 281 students enrolled in a non-major psychology course voluntarily completed an online questionnaire. Analyses were performed using structural
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Exploring the Korean adolescent empathy using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 Heesun Yang, Seong-Joo Kang
The educational approach of empathy has been prominently mentioned as a possible solution to the dehumanization occurring as a byproduct of the rapid development of science and technology in modern society. This study aims to identify the characteristics of Korean adolescents on the empathy factor, as a core competency of twenty-first century education, and the applicability of the empathy scale. This
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Correction to: Development as education for social justice Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-05-17 Sung‑Sang Yoo, Ridwanul Mosrur, Eunhye Lee, Diego Andres Toca Bermeo
In the original publication of the article the fourth author name, Diego Andres Toca Bermeo was misspelled. The correct name is given in this Correction.
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How effort towards challenge is depicted in stories for young children: an Indonesian study Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-04-24 Maria N. Suprawati, Simone Volet, Deborah Pino-Pasternak
This study examined the nature of effort towards challenge in stories recommended for young children in Indonesian schools. One hundred and nine stories with challenge information, recommended by the Indonesian government for Years 1 and 2 were analyzed, using a combination of content and structural analyses. When exploring the characters’ efforts towards challenge, the findings revealed that the most
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Benchmarking in Vietnam universities: teaching and research and revenue efficiencies Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Phung Phi Tran, Kuo-Cheng Kuo, Wen-Min Lu, Qian Long Kweh
Assessing university resource allocation or misallocation is necessary to understand its impact on research and teaching productivity. To achieve this insight, this study conducts a two-stage data envelopment analysis to judge the “teaching and research efficiency” and “revenue efficiency” of 61 universities in Vietnam. We analyze what variables have the most effect on the efficiencies of the universities
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Principal instructional leadership for teacher participation in professional development: evidence from Japan, Singapore, and South Korea Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-09-18 Taeyeon Kim, Youngjun Lee
We investigated the relationship between principal instructional leadership and teacher participation in multiple types of professional development in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. Using the Teaching and Learning International Survey dataset of 2013, we employed two-level logistic regression models to estimate the rigorous effects of principal instructional leadership that were separated out from
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MOOC instructor designs and challenges: what can be learned from existing MOOCs in Indonesia and Malaysia? Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-09-17 Annisa R. Sari, Curtis J. Bonk, Meina Zhu
The purpose of this study was to explore Indonesian and Malaysian instructors’ perceptions of massive open online course (MOOC) design and how they deal with the design challenges. Surveys, email interviews, and course reviews are the main data-collection methods employed in this sequential mixed methods study. Forty-six instructors participated in the survey, and nine of them voluntarily participated
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Parental involvement and academic achievement among elementary and middle school students Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-08-31 Midori Otani
This study investigates the associations between parental involvement and academic achievement across three criteria: school level (elementary and middle school), gender (male and female) and subject (mathematics and science). Additionally, it examines whether students’ attitudes towards a subject and their academic aspirations mediate this relationship. A nationally representative sample of elementary
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A follow-up study on vocational high school principals’ opinions about 360 degree evaluation feedback and their leadership effectiveness and behavior change Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-08-13 Tsai-Feng Cheng, Huei-Chun Wu
This pilot study revealed that most vocational high school principals accept using 360 degree evaluation feedback as the mechanism for evaluating leadership effectiveness and as a reference for leadership behavior change intentions. However, whether this can cause behavior change or elevation of leadership effectiveness remains uncertain and must be tracked and verified. The current study continues
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The effects of college students’ perfectionism on career stress and indecision: self-esteem and coping styles as moderating variables Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-08-10 Minchul Kang, Juyoung Lee, A-Ra Lee
This study identified the subgroups (latent classes) of Korean college students according to the influence of perfectionism on career stress and indecision, and explored the effects of sub-factors of perfectionism on career stress and indecision for each subgroup. Also, the study examined how individual self-esteem and stress coping styles affect the subgroup classification. Data from 476 South Korean
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The effect of educational leadership on students’ achievement: a cross-cultural meta-analysis research on studies between 2008 and 2018 Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-08-02 Engin Karadag
In this meta-analysis study, different leadership approaches were combined, and the relationship between educational leadership and student achievement was analyzed. In the literature review, 151 research articles/dissertations, independent from one another, were brought together, and 131,498 study subjects were included in the sample group. The results of the analyses performed with a random effects
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Identification of the optimal faculty behaviors for performance improvement in distance education Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-07-22 Mehmet Kara, Zahide Yildirim
The current study reports the findings of the first step of a comprehensive performance improvement study, identification of the optimal behaviors. In this sense, this study aims to determine the optimal faculty behaviors in distance education based on the perspectives of the stakeholders based on the framework of transactional distance (TD) theory. The data were obtained from the stakeholders of distance
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Teaching international students from Confucian Heritage Culture countries: perspectives from three U.S. host campuses Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-07-16 Qi Sun, Haijun Kang, Bo Chang, David Lausch
U.S. host campuses face instructional challenges from increasing numbers of international students from Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) countries. Yet, the presence of CHC students offers learning opportunities for U.S. faculty in the context of internationalizing their higher education campuses. This study surveyed faculty at three U.S. host universities. It explored faculty understandings of Confucian
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Exploring the key domains where teacher efficacy beliefs operate for Japanese high-school English teachers Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-07-05 Gene Thompson, Karen Dooley
Bandura (in: Pajares and Urdan, Self-efficacy beliefs of adolescents, Information Age, Greenwich, 2006) suggested that efficacy beliefs should be considered in relation to key challenges within a (teaching) context. As part of a larger project on the teacher efficacy beliefs of Japanese high-school teachers of English (JTEs), this paper reports exploratory findings of (i) the key domains of challenge
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Global interconnectivity and its ethical challenges in education Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Fazal Rizvi
The past decade has witnessed the rise of ethno-nationalist sentiments around the world, around the claims that globalization is an ideology that has undermined the sovereignty of nation-states and created conditions that have produced wide-ranging social inequalities. And yet there seems little prospect of turning back from the facts of global interconnectivity. In this paper, I suggest that it is
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Global justice, national education and local realities in Myanmar: a civil society perspective Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-06-13 Thein Lwin
This paper examines social justice in relation to the Myanmar education system, from the perspective of participation in decision-making; the social background of students; culture; language and local knowledge. It highlights the current state of education in Myanmar, including the national education law, the national education strategic plan and educational practice in different types of school systems
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Possibilities for critical pedagogy engagement in higher education: exploring students’ openness and acceptance Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-06-10 Joanna Joseph Jeyaraj
Critical pedagogy is an approach to teaching and learning which aims to impact social change through education. In this study, the possibility of engaging with critical pedagogy is explored, by focusing on students’ perceptions of this practice. Data were collected through interviews with 14 Malaysian students. They shared their experiences of learning subjects which touched on social justice issues
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Inclusive education: a prerequisite for equity and social justice Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-06-10 Sheldon Shaeffer
Whether education fosters equity and social justice, as it is said to do, is a matter of debate. Whatever the outcome of the debate, education has a better chance of succeeding in this process if it is delivered through a national system and through schools which are genuinely inclusive in nature—welcoming difference and diversity; attempting to fulfil the rights for education of good quality; and
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Re-thinking democracy, development and social justice in education: connecting global, national and local challenges Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Fazal Rizvi, Moon Suk Hong
The papers in the Special Issue of Asia Pacific Education Review were initially presented at the 2018 International Conference on Education Research (ICER) held at Seoul National University. The conference brought together leading scholars from around the world to consider issues of democracy, development and social justice in education. The robust discussions that followed demonstrated again how these
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Education, digital literacy and democracy: the case of Britain’s proposed ‘exit’ from the European Union (Brexit) Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-05-29 Kenneth King
There has been a long tradition of demonstrating formal education’s direct relationship with many dimensions of development, including increased productivity, health, reduced mortality, population control etc. There has also been a literature looking particularly at the ‘democratic dividend’ from education, both through the lens of global citizenship as well as more generally through education’s influence
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Improving accountability in education: the importance of structured democratic voice Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-05-27 William C. Smith, Aaron Benavot
Accountability, a cornerstone of contemporary education policy, is increasingly characterized by external monitoring and an emphasis on outcomes or results. Largely absent in discussions of accountability are the voices of stakeholders who work, learn, and teach in schools and other educational institutions. This article highlights the critical importance of structured democratic voice. This process
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Development as education for social justice Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-05-23 Sung-Sang Yoo, Ridwanul Mosrur, Eunhye Lee, Diego Toca Andrea
The correlation between education and development, with time, went through many changes along with the changes of perspectives. Since both of these concepts encompass wide ranges of social phenomena and factors, the analysis remains always complicated. However, in the era of SDGs and at the time when post-development debates have been raised, it is important to address this conceptual correlation through
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The challenges of learning to live together: navigating the global, national, and local Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-05-18 Liz Jackson
How people are to live together well in society, and learn to live together, have been continuously debated. These are challenging tasks, as the world changes over time, while educators aim to prepare young people for a dynamic, undetermined future. Although models and practices of civic education vary around the world, they typically have one thing in common. They tend to employ what can be described
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‘Forgotten’ democracy, student activism, and higher education in Myanmar: past, present, and future Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-05-18 Moon Suk Hong, Hani Kim
This paper is a historical examination of higher education in contemporary Myanmar, and its relationship to the students, the most important and visible actor in higher education. Reflecting upon dramatic socio-political transitions from the five decades of military rule to partly constitutional democracy that led to major reform and liberation in education, this paper traces the development and destruction
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Education for sustainable development in Africa: a critique of regional agendas Asia Pac. Educ. Rev. (IF 0.761) Pub Date : 2019-05-18 Leon Tikly
Education is often perceived in policy agendas as playing a transformative role in realising sustainable development and the SDGs on the continent. The assumption is based, however, on an insufficiently critical understanding of the historical role of education in supporting unsustainable development. The article provides a critical account of the relationship between education policy and sustainable
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