This paper describes the processes and outcomes of the development of a set of performance indicators in the affective and social domain for use in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools. A consultative process with major stakeholders (141 schools) guided the selection of specific areas with the domains. The samples for reliability, validity and norming included some 250 schools and 55, 000 students. Overall, the final set of indicators was quite comprehensive, encompassing areas from self-concept, through interpersonal skills to leadership and goals in life. The APASO software, developed to allow schools and the system to readily gather and report outcomes, was well received by users. The paper concludes by drawing links to other research investigating the effects of inclusive practices on students’ affective and social outcomes, suggesting that the indicators developed in this paper could be useful in examining those effects in Hong Kong.
[Copyright © 2003 The Hong Kong Institute of Education.]

This article briefly examined the development and reforms of education for students with disabilities worldwide in the last 50 years and that of Hong Kong in the last 3 decades. It addressed the significant progress seen in Hong Kong and called for the need to install systems of transition planning and post-secondary support services that are currently absent in Hong Kong. Benefits of having these systems were discussed, drawing overseas examples in countries such as the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia where students with disabilities participate in and are accommodated at all levels of education. It was emphasized that the massive education reforms aiming at transforming the entire education system into a flexible system to accommodate diverse learners and promote lifelong learning for all would have been a perfect platform to address such gaps and issues. The conclusion of the paper calls for discourse and collaboration among relevant stakeholders toward a more inclusive and holistic reform.
[Copyright © 2009 The Hong Kong Special Education Society.]

Integration or inclusive education is a hot issue and a global trend. Different countries value the policy of integration or inclusive education through whole school approach but may be with different progress on the track. This essay intends to compare the education system of Finland and Hong Kong as any change in the general education system shapes the mechanism of and the provisions to the special education. The scholarly study of other education system will help us to get deeper understanding of our own system and so can work for its improvement (Bray, 2004). The approach of comparison will be adapted from Bereday’s Model for Undertaking Comparative Studies.
[Copyright © 2007 Canadian Center of Science and Education.]

近年，香港所推行的教育改革積極鼓勵學校實施融合教育。融合教育是指所有學生，無論他們是具有不同的資質或能力，都應在學校裡享有同等的學習機會；要達到共融的目的，教師必須引用校本課程發展的模式，以配合學生的不同學習需要。通過有關教師的訪問，本研究旨在探討參與融合教育的教師如何運用校本課程發展去幫助融合學生學習和曾遭遇過的困難與問題。研究的結果能幫助有志推行融合教育的教師進一步在學校裡施行融合教育的工作。