Yi-Lee Wong

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between theories of intelligence and goal orientations, and their joint connections to students' academic achievement in the Chinese cultural context, and found that beliefs in the incremental theory of intelligence contribute to students’ academic achievements by facilitating their endorsement of mastery goals and performance-approach goals.

TL;DR: Examining the role of filial piety in shaping Chinese students' theories of intelligence to obtain a clearer understanding of the process by which parent-child connectedness is linked to Chinese students's academic achievement indicated that different filial pious beliefs relate to students' academic achievement by shaping different theories of Intelligence.

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship among students' goal orientations, their college GPAs, and their average scores in high school form 7 and found that mastery goals and performance-approach goals were positively associated with students' GPAs whereas performance-avoidance goals were negatively associated.

TL;DR: The authors examine the experiences of middle-class students who fail to get straight into university rectif... against an expanded sector of higher education, inadequate empirical effort has been made to examine their experiences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how two groups of middle-class parents (teachers and managers) help their children obtain an advantaged qualification and conclude that their strategies could be counter-productive.