Grade level and achievement of immigrants' children: academic redshirting in Hong Kong

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Differentials in the Academic Achievement of Children of Immigrants

One in five school-age children in the United States is the immediate descendant of an immigrant. This paper considers the performance of these children in the United States’ middle schools and high schools. These children of immigrants are a diverse group amongst themselves, hailing in significant numbers from a large variety of countries, and a variety of social and economic backgrounds. Usin...

The Rise of the Second Generation: Aspirations, Motivations and Academic Success of Chinese Immigrants’ Children in Hong Kong

Most studies adopt the culture perspective to explain the second-generation immigrants’ advantage in education, paying little attention to immigrants’ selectivity based on unmeasured psychological attributes. We identify four subjective factors that could contribute to immigrants’ outstanding performance, and employ mediation analysis to examine how much of the effect of immigrant status on aca...

Prospect of Electronic Road Pricing in Hong kong

To cope with the urban congestion problem resulted from rapid urbanization some cities are successfully using Electronic Road Pricing policy as a demand management measure. In 1982, Hong Kong Governmenttook initiative to experiment electronic road pricing in Hong Kong. Though, the project outcome reveals that Electronic Road Pricing could bring tremendous economic, social and environmental bene...

Self-esteem and academic streaming in Hong Kong.