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Conference Paper: Improving the social skills of average and high-ability Primary 1 students in Hong Kong: parents as trainers
Title | Improving the social skills of average and high-ability Primary 1 students in Hong Kong: parents as trainers |
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Keywords | Social competence High ability children Parent education Play Hong Kong |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | Education Faculty, The University of Hong Kong. |
Citation | The 2013-2014 Postgraduate Research Conference (PRC), Education Faculty, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7 December 2013. In Programme & Abstracts Book, 2013, p. 19 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The research resulted from the perceived needs for face-to-face interactions and parent involvement in developing young children’s social competence. Studies of such school-wide social programmes, with the inclusion of parents as trainers, and their applications with high-ability children in Hong Kong are rare. This study evaluated a social skills programme which has been implemented in the target primary school since 2006. In order to promote parents’ ownership of the programme, parent-trainers were teamed with new parent-volunteers to conduct eight cycles of intervention. Participants were 122 Primary 1 students (age range: 5.67 - 6.75 years) in the target school and the control group comprised 136 students from a comparable school. Raven’s Progressive Matrices was used to identify high- and average- ability. In order to ... |
Description | Research Report Chairperson: Dr MT Yuen |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209602 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Liu, SSH | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-07T01:36:16Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-07T01:36:16Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2013-2014 Postgraduate Research Conference (PRC), Education Faculty, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7 December 2013. In Programme & Abstracts Book, 2013, p. 19 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209602 | - |
dc.description | Research Report | - |
dc.description | Chairperson: Dr MT Yuen | - |
dc.description.abstract | The research resulted from the perceived needs for face-to-face interactions and parent involvement in developing young children’s social competence. Studies of such school-wide social programmes, with the inclusion of parents as trainers, and their applications with high-ability children in Hong Kong are rare. This study evaluated a social skills programme which has been implemented in the target primary school since 2006. In order to promote parents’ ownership of the programme, parent-trainers were teamed with new parent-volunteers to conduct eight cycles of intervention. Participants were 122 Primary 1 students (age range: 5.67 - 6.75 years) in the target school and the control group comprised 136 students from a comparable school. Raven’s Progressive Matrices was used to identify high- and average- ability. In order to ... | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Education Faculty, The University of Hong Kong. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Faculty of Educattion The University of Hong Kong Postgraduate Research Conference 2013-2014 | - |
dc.subject | Social competence | - |
dc.subject | High ability children | - |
dc.subject | Parent education | - |
dc.subject | Play | - |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | - |
dc.title | Improving the social skills of average and high-ability Primary 1 students in Hong Kong: parents as trainers | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Liu, SSH: sylvialiuhk@yahoo.com.hk | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 19 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 19 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Hong Kong | - |