How much does it differ? How much does it matter? The research experience of Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students in a Hong Kong University

How much does it differ? How much does it matter? The research experience of Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students in a Hong Kong University

• Zeng, Lily Min The University of Hong Kong

Studies in Higher Education, (0), - , 2019

Routledge

2019

• T Educational Research
  • TB Study of Research Activities
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Research Education Chinese Students Supervision Peer Support Cultural Distance

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Using the invariance test, this study compared the research experiences of students from two sibling cultural groups in a Hong Kong context. Data were collected from 304 Mainland Chinese and 225 local Hong Kong research students. Their research experiences were measured using the Student Research Experience Questionnaire (SREQ) (Supervision, Infrastructure, Intellectual and Social Climate, Generic Skill, and Overall Satisfaction) and two scales developed from previous studies on research students in Hong Kong (Peer Support and Communication with Supervisor). The data supported the construct validity and consistency of all the scales and the measurement equivalence of all measurements except Intellectual and Social Climate. The data showed that Mainland Chinese students had significantly higher satisfaction with Infrastructure, and marginally higher satisfaction with Supervision, Communication with Supervisors, and Peer Support than local Hong Kong students. The invariance tests on path coefficients indicated that there was a nonsignificant difference in the path models of the two groups.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03075079

• 10.1080/03075079.2019.1647412

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/50ad172c

2020-08-26