Educational Research Journal

A Publication of the Hong Kong Educational Research Association

Vol. 9 No. 1, Summer 1994

CONTENTS
Editorial
1	Eight years of education research: The Educational Research Journal 1986-1993 David W. Chan
Empirical Contributions
5	Comparative education in a microcosm: Diversity and evolution of secondary school curricula in Macau Mark Bray and Kwok-chun Tang
15	Words that matter in science: A study of Hong Kong students' comprehension of non-technical words in science P. K. Tao
24	Learning and its implications for teaching: Two case studies from Canadian and Hong Kong schools Patrick Kwok-tung Lai
31	Schemata and memory for sentences: The effects of exposure to a British environment on the English of Hong Kong teachers at University in England Terry Dolan
38	Towards a taxonomy of teacher thinking Thomas K. W. Tang and David Watkins
44	Adult views on learning and development in Hong Kong preschool children Sylvia Opper
52	Early childhood training in Hong Kong Marjory Ebbeck and Fred Ebbeck
60	Student-teacher relationship: The student perspective David W. Chan
65	An ethographic study of stress coping strategies among Chinese college students in Beijing Xiaodong Yue
77	The job characteristics of secondary school teachers Wai-sum Tai and Yin-cheong Cheng
Methodological Contribution
87	為何需要結構方程模式及如何建立潛伏變項？ (Article written in Chinese) 侯傑泰
Other
4	List of reviewers for this issue

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