A comparative study of educational research in China and the United States

Zhao, Yong; Zhang, Gaoming; Yang, Wenzhong; Kirkland, David; Han, Xue; Zhang, Jianwei

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“…Meng, 2004;Zhang, 1994). These studies are non-empirical but theoretical explorations and recommendations, generating from the authors' own personal reflections, which is a common tool of educational discourse in China (Zhao et al, 2008). Thus, more empirical studies are needed to examine factors influencing Chinese teachers' turnover.…”

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The influences of school climate and teacher compensation on teachers’ turnover intention in China

Liu¹

2012

Educational Psychology

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This study employed survey research to investigate the differential relationships between dimensions of teachers' job satisfaction (e.g. salary) and their turnover intention, after controlling for demographic variables (e.g. school location). Five hundred and ten teachers from a northeastern city of China participated. The results of the hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that (a) teachers were more likely to stay in teaching profession if they worked in urban schools, always wanted to become a teacher or had a realistic view of teaching before they began their career training and (b) a negative relationship existed between teachers' compensation and their turnover intention. This study offered some implications for Chinese educational policy-makers and practitioners regarding how to remain qualified teachers.

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The influences of school climate and teacher compensation on teachers’ turnover intention in China

Liu¹

2012

Educational Psychology

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“…One of the main shortcomings of studies based on data from international large-scale assessments is their inability to understand the economic, cultural and social context of each country (Zhao et al, 2008;Thät and Must, 2013). In order to overcome this limitation we retrieved some additional information about economic indicators from the World Bank´s Indicators database and collected data from some questions included in the World Values Survey (WVS) to approximate the cultural heritage of each country.…”

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Assessing European primary school performance through a conditional nonparametric model

Ferrera

Santín

Simancas

2017

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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This paper uses a fully nonparametric framework to assess the efficiency of primary schools using data about schools in 16 European countries participating in PIRLS 2011. This study represents an original enterprise since most of the empirical research in the field is restricted to evaluations at regional or national level and focused on secondary education. For our purpose, we adapt the metafrontier framework to compare and decompose the technical efficiency of primary schools operating in heterogeneous contexts, which in our case is represented by different educational systems or countries. Likewise, we use an extension of the conditional nonparametric robust approach to test the potential influence of a mixed set of environmental school factors and variables representing cultural values of each country. Our results indicate that the intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive skills like responsibility or perseverance are significantly related to school efficiency, whereas most school factors do not seem to have a significant influence on school performance.

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“…The research articles published in JYYJ appeared to favor qualitative research methods over quantitative research methods. Zhao et al (2008) also noted that the articles published in JYYJ contained a number of methodological flaws. These included an incomplete and a less-thansystematic literature review, a lack of detailed information about the context of the study (e.g., demographic information of participants), and no mention of the limitations of the study.…”

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“…About 30% of the articles listed five or fewer references, and five articles did not have any references at all. Hence, standards of scholarship in China have been highly contentious, as Zhao et al (2008) and other studies have shown.…”

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“…Fifteen of the 114 articles did not list any references at all. Zhao et al (2008) compared one Chinese journal entitled, Jiaoyu Yanjiu (JYYJ or translated to mean Educational Research) with the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) to examine who the contributors were, the nature of concerns and issues written about in the journal papers, and the types of research methodologies employed. Nearly 300 articles published in these two journals in an 18-month period were analyzed for the study.…”

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Examining scholarship in China’s academe: an exploratory study

Tam

Chen

2009

High Educ

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We selected five Chinese university-based journals and five Western university-based journals to examine the extent of contributions by editorial board members and faculty from the universities in which the journals are published over a 6-year period from 2001 to 2006. A disproportionate contribution of faculty papers was from editorial board members in the Chinese university-based journals and faculty in the universities the journals are affiliated to. We speculate that this could be attributed to various reasons, including issues of protectionism, academic accountability, and the social capital of guanxi in the specific context of China. We suggest that editorial review boards of university-based journals in China may need to re-examine professional roles, responsibilities and ethics that may require new thinking on scholarship in higher education.

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A comparative study of educational research in China and the United States

Cited by 30 publications

References 4 publications

The influences of school climate and teacher compensation on teachers’ turnover intention in China

The influences of school climate and teacher compensation on teachers’ turnover intention in China

Assessing European primary school performance through a conditional nonparametric model

Examining scholarship in China’s academe: an exploratory study

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