This study explored the validity of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale in a sample of 853 practicing teachers from Australia, Canada, China (Hong Kong), Indonesia, and Oman. The authors used multigroup confirmatory factor analysis to test the factor structure and measurement invariance across settings, after which they examined the relationships between work engagement, workplace well-being (job satisfaction and quitting intention), and contextual variables (socioeconomic status, experience, and gender). The 1-factor version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale was deemed preferable to the 3-factor version and showed acceptable fit to the cross-national data. The 1-factor Utrecht Work Engagement Scale showed good internal consistency and similar relationships with workplace well-being and contextual variables across settings. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale was invariant within broadly construed Western and non-Western groups but not across Western and non-Western groups. The authors concluded that the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale needs further development before its use can be supported in further cross-cultural research.
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This study investigated the identification and distribution of perfectionist types with a sample of 111 academically gifted Chinese students aged 17 to 20 in Hong Kong. Three approaches to classification were employed. Apart from the direct questioning approach, the rational approach and the clustering approach classified students using their scores on three constructs of the revised Almost Perfect Scale, which included high standards, order, and discrepancy between standards and performance. Despite the fact that the different approaches yielded different classification results, all three approaches generated profiles of three perfectionist types interpretable as nonperfectionists, healthy perfectionists, and unhealthy perfectionists, suggesting that healthy perfectionists tended to outnumber unhealthy perfectionists and nonperfectionists. Implications of the findings for working with perfectionist students and future research on perfectionism and perfectionist types are discussed.
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The evaluation of government-financed research has become increasingly important in the last few decades in terms of increasing the quality of, and payoff from, the research that is done, reducing the cost of doing it, and lending public credibility to the manner in which research is funded. But there are very large differences throughout the world in the extent to which systems used promote these results. This paper briefly presents the dimensional results of a study designed to comparatively evaluate the national-level research evaluation models in sixteen countries on five merit-defining dimensions.
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背景：為了配合教育改革，教師必須有能力分析試題，以及從中反省改進自己的教學，達到通過評核促進學生學習，改進教師教學，朝向教學與評核結合，提升師生的教與學的質素之目的。
目的或討論焦點：本文把如何應用學生問題分析表及相關係數技術，對試題進行分析及反思某小學三年級數學的教學及評核設計求取「促進學習的評核」的真實經驗，和同工分享學者和前線教師的合作成果。
論點/評論/建議：在應用學生問題分析方面，我們提出在發展評核過程中，要注視三種層次：1. 教師於編寫評核材料前，應要有明確的評核目的；2. 編寫評核材料時，必要留意題意的清晰度、深淺度，以及是否能區別生的能力和如實地反映個別學生的能力；3. 施測後，教師應從評核材料中反思自己的教學程式和方法，從而作出適當的調整，以迎合學生的學習方法和進度。
總結：要做到教學相長，教師就要有能力分析評核學生的工具是否合乎教學目的和需要，以及理解評核結果和教學的關係。因此，教師於整個教學流程中，要結合評核和教學，對編製的評核材料要先進行分析，並依據結果進行修訂，用以達到真正評核學生的能力，同時要在編製之評核材料嚴謹性和有效性加以關注。
Background: Education reform in Hong Kong stresses the learning function of assessment. It is important for teachers to know how to do item analysis of a test. By analyzing the items of the test, teachers will understand how their students have learnt. This will help teachers plan their teaching and eventually help students learn.
Aims or focus of discussion: The author shares an "Assessment For Learning" experience of using Student-Problem Chart Analysis techniques and Correction Coefficient to a grade III Mathematical class in a Hong Kong primary school.
Arguments / comments / suggestions: The experience informed that, when using SPCA, three levels of focus should be considered during the formulating process of assessment tools in class. They included: 1) clear assessment objectives for assessment materials; 2) items clarification, appropriation, discriminative power should be considered; 3) deep reflection of teaching procedures and methods from the assessment materials after the measurement. Teachers should adjust their actions in order to suit the needs of students learning and progress.
Conclusion: It is essential for teachers to know how to analyze assessment tests. Good analysis entails being able to match learning objectives to the needs of their students. Deliberation should start well before the test is developed and after the results have been collected. Teachers should look into relevant materials when considering the test content, analyze

This study examined the structural relationships between (a) the latent independent constructs of orthographic and lexical knowledge and phonological sensitivity and (b) the effect of these constructs on the latent construct of literacy manifested by reading aloud and spelling regular and exception English words in 156 Cantonese- speaking Chinese students (M age = 10.8 years) who were learning English as a second language in Hong Kong. Three carefully designed and item-analyzed indicators subserved the construct of orthographic and lexical knowledge, and another three indicators subserved the construct of phonological sensitivity. Our hypothesis of greater contribution of word-specific orthographic and lexical knowledge than phonological sensitivity to learning to read and spell English words in these Chinese children was supported by results from multiple regression, principal component analyses and especially by structural equation modeling. The various goodness-of-fit indexes showed the appropriateness of the indicators in measuring the latent constructs as well as the relationships among these constructs.
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