The constructive alignment (CA) of university teaching has received considerable attention
from a policy-making perspective, but much less so from a student perspective. Against this …

This study aims to provide insights into the challenges that home and international students
experience when collaborating in mixed groups. A selection of 261 reflective journals written …

The constructive alignment (CA) of university teaching is designed to encourage students to
adopt a deep learning approach, which supports meaningful learning. The evidence is …

Does the meaning of learning vary across cultures? In order to answer this question we
propose a theoretical framework that integrates various reported cultural differences in the …

The Common Core State Standards encourage teachers to use close reading as a means to
help students access complex text. Many literacy experts believe close reading has the …

Chinese and American children aged 5–11 years (total N= 144) heard two child informants
make conflicting empirical claims about each of 4 scenarios. For example, one informant …

In recent years much second language acquisition (SLA) research on motivation has
centred on the learning and use of English around the world. This focus has heightened …

East Asian students are often educated in a more instructor-led and less interactive manner
than their North American and European peers. Therefore, as international students at …

This study implemented the Presentation-Assimilation-Discussion-Exercise (PADE) model, a
student-centered teaching model that originated in China, and examined its effect on college …

Prior research demonstrates that members of collectivistic cultures are less likely to reduce
cognitive dissonance after making a choice, compared to members of individualistic …