作者棌用結合態度的「行為二分法」，探討380名中學中文教師對學生文章中運用方言詞語（238個）的態度。結果顯示，教師的態度一般比較靈活寬鬆；但對不同類型詞彙有不同的處理方法，情況頗為混亂，也沒有明確的準則。作者建議應該加強師生對方言詞語與普通話詞語的對應認知與訓練，同時要開展整理已進入本地書面語的方言詞彙的工作。（何文勝整理）

作者利用問卷調查香港中學中文教師對下列「專業知識」的了解：一、對中學中文科課程的認識；二、對中學中文科教學目標的認識；三、對中學中文科課程「銜接」的認識。結果顯示：中文教師對本科課程少有深入的了解和研究，對中、小學課程的銜接問題更所知不多。作者指出，有限的「專業知識」會妨礙中文教師的「專業發展」。（馮吳淑瑩整理）

作者回顧了三個範疇的教師效能研究：首先是教師個別教學策略和技巧，繼而是理論教學模式、再而是教師認知和反省思考研究。將理論、策略和模式轉化成實踐經驗，實有賴教學實習和教師反思過程。作者指出，現行教學法課程中最弱的就是這兩個環節，而教學反思訓練更全付厥如，這是師訓教育中一項致命的弱點；「教學法」課程革新主要是將學理方法學習、實習前教程策劃訓練、實習教學興視導教學、實習後教學反思訓練四部份連結，構成一個有機結合，這不但可改進教師教學質素，還可改良教師思想質素。（關之英整理）

This paper looks at the developmental needs of teachers in relation to facilitating the personal and social development of students. It goes on to describe a module, 'Personal and Social Education', offered to all pre-service teachers in the Hong Kong Institute of Education which aims at equipping trainee teachers to carry out the guidance role of a teacher in the context of Hong Kong, particularly in the role of a class teacher. It concludes with the results of a survey seeking the views of these trainees on the module they had undertaken.
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Traditional studies of teacher commitment often ignore the effect of interactions between personal characteristics and school environment and the implications of their findings are inevitably limited. Responding to this research gap, the present study aims to investigate the contingency relationship of school organizational health to teacher commitment with multi-level statistical analysis. The study was a survey involving 20 aided primary schools and 423 teachers in Hong Kong. The findings suggest that three school organizational health factors such as morale, consideration and institutional integrity are related to teacher commitment through interactions with the teacher personal characteristics such as position, marital status, and length of service in the school. The result supports that the relationship between school organizational health and teacher commitment is contingent upon teacher characteristics. The interesting findings can provide implications for school improvement and future research.
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Twenty-one in-service early childhood students participated in a teaching practicum in Australia as part of the final year of a Bachelor of Arts in Hong Kong. Students spent two weeks visiting a university and early childhood settings in Australia. The university based component of the program included workshops and discussions with lecturing staff located in both the Australian and Hong Kong universities. Students were asked to complete written statements about 'What is children's learning?' before and after their practicum experience. An inductive analysis of students' written statements and practicum evaluations revealed an increase in beliefs about children's learning as 'active understanding' over the two-week period. Implications for teacher education programs are discussed.
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Teachers beliefs about their ability to affect students' performance is an important part of professionalism. This study compared 725 Hong Kong and 575 Shanghai primary in-service teachers on their teacher efficacy. Two Chinese versions of the 12-item Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale were used in this study since some wordings of the Hong Kong version of the Scale (HK-TSE) were different from the Shanghai version (STSE) as a result of cultural differences. Basically, the Shanghai teachers reported significantly higher efficacy than did the Hong Kong teachers. After reviewing these quantitative results, 86 follow-up questionnaires from Shanghai in-service teachers who also participated in the first part of this study were collected. Results of this qualitative part showed that the three most commonly cited factors for the contribution of teacher efficacy were: respect and confidence placed in them by students and parents, the training they received from universities and the experience they gained from daily teaching practice. Though Hong Kong in-service teachers had lower efficacy scores than the Shanghai counterparts.
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