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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Chinese Higher Education"”.
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Inequity within Chinese Higher Education with the Focus on Henan Province
… regarding inequities they experience in the Chinese higher education system based solely on their geography. Henan students are required to score higher than students from other provinces on the Chinese National College Entrance Examinations (NCEE) in order to apply for admission into Chinese …
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Resilience of EFL Teachers in Chinese Higher Education: Institutional Factors and Strategies
… English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in Chinese Higher Education (HE), examining the specific challenges they encounter, the strategies they employ to maintain well-being, the institutional factors shaping their resilience and the potential institutional changes needed to better support …
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A Comparison of Perceptions and Implementation of Shared Governance between American and Chinese Higher-Education Institutions
… application of shared governance on an American higher education campus and a counterpart in China and determine if there were differences among the groups of stakeholders both within and between the institutions. A 2-inventory researcher-developed survey of shared governance was used to measure …
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Making Sense of Chinese Higher Education Internationalization: Critical Gazes at the Nexus of State, Power, and Globalization
… governs through, and how we are governed by, higher education nationalization policies. The former question corresponds to the idea of governance whilst the latter relates to governmentality. Both governance and governmentality are manifestations of the notion of power. The …
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The Chinese higher education system and the impact of gender : the structure of Chinese education system and previous research and an empirical study
… vierten Kapitels stehen „women as teachers in Chinese higher education“. Die empirische Studie im zweiten Teil bezieht sich auf Biographien, Motivationen und Orientierungen von chinesischen Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrern an Universitäten. Als abschließendes Fazit fassen die Autoren …
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The impact of marketisation on higher education in post-Mao China, with case studies of universities in Yunnan Province
… in its first half to the rapid change of higher education in China, this thesis demonstrates how hybrid governance can be analysed through an incentive approach which focuses on reducing state authority, enhancing academic power and creating market rewards. The research findings show that …
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The Effects of Internationalization Activities on Undergraduates' Global Competence: An Exploratory Study at A Chinese Private University
… is considered by many organizations and educational practitioners as one of the essential skills and abilities required for young adults to live and work intellectually and cooperatively in today's globalized and intercultural world. Further, students' global competence is often applied …
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The Impact of Volitional Feedback on Learners' Self-Efficacy and Course Satisfaction in a College Assignment System
In contemporary Chinese higher education, classroom lectures combined with a web-based learning support system are broadly applied. This study investigated what kind of feedback strategy could be effective in improving students' self-efficacy and course satisfaction in a blended learning context. …
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Feedback in Higher Education: Chinese Undergraduate Students’ Understandings and Experiences of Feedback
… process. With reference to the context of Chinese higher education, relatively little attention has been paid to students’ perceptions and experiences of feedback and how these influence their actions outside of the English as a foreign language context. Located within interpretive inquiry, …
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Sino-US Comparison of First Year Programs: Kennesaw State University vs. Lushan College of Guangxi University of Technology
… first-year students’ successful transition to higher learning at Kennesaw State University. The Department of First-Year Programs runs these programs very well and has a strong national reputation. The Department was built in 2007 but the relevant first-year programs have been performed close …
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Student engagement in postsecondary English classes in China: the teachers’ perspective
… at the undergraduate level embedded in the Chinese examination-oriented educational system. Therefore, this qualitative study investigated four English instructors’ experiences in student engagement and relationship building with their students in postsecondary English classes. This study …
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An Examination of Chinese Private College Students’ Intercultural Competence
… approach for responding to global challenges for higher education institutions is to adopt an internationalization strategy and accelerate the internationalization pace. To cultivate “global-ready” graduates, developing students’ intercultural competence (IC) has become one of the core missions of …
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Development of University Related Foundations in China
… that have taken place in foundations of national Chinese public universities from 1999 to 2012. The study also attempted to explore major forces behind these changes. A secondary purpose was to seek for ideas on promoting higher education philanthropy in China by explore successful experiences in …
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Contributing to Engineering Colleges Students' Development Through Out-of-Class Involvement: A Survey of Chinese Private Colleges' Engineering Students
… the use of the translated and culturally adapted Chinese version of the Postsecondary Student Engagement Survey (PosSES 2.1). This study provides the statistical analyses of the survey data completed by 283 senior engineering students on their perceptions about their levels of involvement related …
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Transgression in the closet: Gay academics’ experiences of heteronormativity in China
… in 2001. However, it is still a social taboo and Chinese queer people face persistent discrimination from the authorities and the public. While international research has documented queer teachers’ workplace experiences, little is known about queer teachers’ experiences in China. To address this …
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A Technology-Mediated Tool (FiF) and Foreign Language Learners: DevelopingEFL Learners’ Oral Proficiency at a Chinese Higher Vocational College
… of English oral proficiency of EFL students in higher vocational colleges in China. The research began with a survey of students' attitudes towards the technology-mediated tool, and then a 20-week experimental follow-up study was conducted. During the research process, a mixed explanatory …
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MP3 and Culturally Free
… a cultural trait and technology within the Chinese higher education system. It was from this adventure a new approach to help Chinese students improve their oral English was developed while stumbling upon a global phenomenon. Technology does more than provide logistical assistance; it …
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Navigating the Urban-Rural Divide: The Agency of Rural Chinese Female Higher Education Students in China
<p>This dissertation explores how rural Chinese female students at urban Chinese higher education institutions conceptualize and negotiate the urban-rural divide that often interplays with gender and the discourse of quality (suzhi) to shape their lives. A substantial body of literature discusses …
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Integrating online cooperative learning into the English as a foreign language writing curriculum: a modelling trial
… has been reported to be increasingly used within Chinese higher education. The rapid expansion has created a problem that it’s difficult to carry out real-time learner interaction among a great number of students. The pure online instruction made the existing problems in university EFL teaching …