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Faculty of Education
Newsletter
May - June, 2009
Issue 5
http://www.umac.mo/fed/newsletter/index_en.htm
� Dr. Jiang Chunlian, FED, won “Outstanding
Paper Award”
� FED student awarded scholarship by French
Consulate in Hong Kong
� About 6,000 15-year-old Macao students
participated in PISA Test
� “Improving Middle School Science
Curriculum and Instruction in Macao”
Workshop
FED NEWSLETTER
Mission
To disseminate educational ideals and
academic and student activities of
FED;
To provide an easy and user-friendly
platform for academic staff;
To promote a sharing culture and boost
teacher education and professional
development.
Editorial Board
Prof. Sylvia S.L.Ieong SLIeong@umac.mo
Cady Ma85928@umac.mo
Sophie Ma85940@umac.mo
Room J527 8397 8727
Issue 5 Contents
Staff Activities
Dr. Jiang Chunlian, FED, won “Outstanding Paper Award” 1
2009 Cross-strait Conference on “School Improvement and
University-School Partnership”
1
FED Prof. Cheung Kwok Cheung was invited to attend
ASUM School Seminar
3
About 6,000 15-year-old Macao students participated in
PISA Test
3
Seminar on “From simplicity to complex: Links among
regression, factor analysis and structural equation
modeling”
4
Student Activities
FED student awarded scholarship by French Consulate in
Hong Kong
5
All FED 1st year master students attended a meeting on
thesis writing
6
Lunch Seminar Series V “Once upon a time, there was a
city called Macao: Revisiting Macao through its city space”
7
Academic Exchanges
Prof. Ruth Hayhoe from Toronto University visited FED of
UM
8
Seminar on Spatial Measurement Content in Elementary
Curricula in the States
9
“Improving Middle School Science Curriculum and
Instruction in Macao” Workshop
10
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SSttaaffff AAccttiivviittiieess
Dr. Jiang Chunlian, FED, won
“Outstanding Paper Award”
May 24-29, FED Assistant Professor
Jiang Chunlian attended The 13th
Global Chinese Conference on
Computers(GCCCE2009) organized by
Taiwan Normal University, and
presented her paper entitled “A Chinese
Software SSP for the Teaching and
Learning of Mathematics: Theoretical
and Practical Perspectives”. Her paper
was a product of cooperation with Prof.
Jingzhong ZHANG and Xicheng PENG,
Central China Normal University. For
more details, please visit:
http://www.gccce2009.org/
2009 Cross-strait Conference
on “School Improvement and
University-School Partnership”
22-24 May, organized by the
University of Macau, and co-organized
by the Chinese Educators' Association
of Macau and the Macao Catholic
Schools Association, Cross-strait
Conference on “School Improvement
and University-school Partnership”
2009 was held at UM. Ten renowned
cross-strait scholars were invited to be
the keynote speakers and 33 papers
were presented at the conference. The
keynote speakers were Prof LO Nai
Kwai, Prof WONG Hin Wah, and Dr
CHUI Chi Shing from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Prof WANG
Jian Jun and Prof. YANG Xiao Wei
from East China Normal University,
Prof GAO Hong Yuan from Beijing
Normal University, Prof. NING Hong
and Prof. ZHANG Jing Bin from
Capital Normal University, Prof CHEN
Bo Chang from National Taiwan
Normal University, and Prof. LI Jin Yu
from Northwest Normal University.
The conference consisted of five
sessions: Special Reports session,
Conference Key-note Speeches session,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Forum and Capital Normal University
Forum, General Paper Presentation
session, and Experience Sharing
session. During the opening ceremony,
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Prof. SHAN Wen Jing, Dean of FED,
made a keynote speech entitled
“Continuity with Innovations: School
Partnership for Sustainable
Development”, which recalls a series of
events such as UM signing cooperative
letter of intent with DSEJ, FED signing
memorandum with Macao schools, etc.,
and set development direction for
school improvement and
university-school partnership. Next the
keynote speakers from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong team shared
their “Quality School Improvement
Plan”, which is one of the most
integrated programs in Hong Kong.
The plan specified how school
development officer (SDO) and
seconded teacher played the role of a
driving force in teacher personal and
professional development, and how
their growth benefited the development
of the school. The Capital Normal
University team mainly introduced
“Special Project for Supporting
Constructing Key Junior Middle School
in Beijing”, which focused on
school-based curriculum, instructional
research, school group, teacher
professional development, school
culture, leadership etc. Scholars from
both sides of the strait actively
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participated in all these activities and
had heated discussions together.
Before the conference, the participants
visited the Affiliated School of the
University of Macau, Taipa
Portuguese-Chinese School, and Macao
World Heritage.
The conference offered a platform for
scholars, school principals and teachers
from both sides of the strait to interact
with one another. They shared their
research projects and experiences. All
this will contribute to the internal
cooperation within each region, as well
as external cooperation among
cross-strait schools and universities.
FED Prof. Cheung Kwok
Cheung was invited to attend
ASUM School Seminar
23-25, May, FED Prof. Cheung Kwok
Cheung, Chairman of Management
Committee of the Affiliated School of
the University of Macau (ASUM), was
invited to attend “Instructional
Reflection---Improving Classroom
Teaching Efficiency” seminar at ASUM.
He delivered a speech to mathematics
teachers from ASUM and Sheng Kung
Hui Choi Kou School on how to
optimize mathematics teaching and
improve teaching efficiency so as to
accumulate school-based math teaching
theories and empirical data. Another
speaker invited was Prof. WANG
Shangzhi, an expert on mathematics
teacher education and training from
Capital Normal University. All
participating teachers discussed
problems and difficulties they
encountered in their teaching, and
proposed the ideas of improving
curriculum design and teaching
efficiency. Also, the guest speakers,
together with all participating teachers,
gave effective suggestions for
mathematics instructional research next
year so as to offer quality education for
Macao students. (Reference from
Macao Daily.)
About 6,000 15-year-old Macao
students participated in PISA
Test
Sponsored by DSEJ, and administered
by Educational Testing and Assessment
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Research Centre (ETARC) of FED,
UM, Program for International Student
Assessment (PISA), was recently held
among all 15-year-old students in
Macao.
According to Mr. Chan Keng Lim from
PISA test centre, about 6,000 students
were eligible to take the test this year,
and the participating rate was as high as
99.7%. This year’s PISA mainly tested
reading literacy, as well as mathematics
and science. And electronic reading
assessment (ERA) has been added as an
official subject of PISA, of which the
filed test was completed last year. ERA
was held at The Affiliated School of
the University of Macau, Pui Ching
Middle School, and Yuet Wah Middle
School respectively during 9-10 May,
and the paper test was administered
during 26-27 April.
As the only unified assessment in
Macao, PISA has a great influence on
and promotes the educational policy
development of Macao.
Brief Introduction to PISA
One main assessment research activity
of ETARC is PISA, acronym for
Program for International Student
Assessment. It is initiated by
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD)
since 2000. It conducts sample surveys
in a 3-year cycle assessing 15-year-old
students’ mathematical, scientific,
reading, problem-solving, and ICT
literacy needed for their life-long
learning. 43, 41 and 58
countries/regions joined the 2000, 2003,
and 2006 PISA Study respectively.
With the help of Hong Kong PISA
Centre, Macau joined the PISA Study
in 2003. Macau subsequently joined the
PISA-2006 and PISA-2009 Study with
strong technical and financial support
by DSEJ.
Seminar on “From simplicity to
complexity: Links among
regression, factor analysis and
structural equation modeling”
A seminar on “From simplicity to
complexity: Links among regression,
factor analysis and structural equation
modeling” was held at JLG213 on 8th
May, and chaired by FED Associate
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Prof. LEUNG Shing On. During the
seminar, Prof. Leung briefed FED
master students on the relationship
among regression, factor analysis and
structural equation modeling.
Prof. Leung answered two key
questions in this seminar:
Why do we need to know SEM?
According to Prof. Leung, even though
one research or thesis only involves one
(or two) methods, the researcher still
needs to know others because he/she
needs to read other studies to broaden
his/her own perspectives. Moreover, if
the researcher uses quantitative
methods, he/she still needs to know
qualitative methods. Also, if the
researcher uses regression, he/she still
needs to know factor analysis, etc. Prof.
Leung illustrated his speech with many
research cases.
How do we know SEM?
Prof. Leung pointed out that, to know
SEM better, the researcher first had to
learn to use statistical software, such as
AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structure),
and followed certain steps: reading data,
defining models to be tested, running
analysis, and modifying models.
Finally, Prof. Leung concluded that to
construct SEM we not only need to
follow certain steps, but also adopt the
right attitude: hard thinking and
consistency.
FED student awarded
scholarship by French
Consulate in Hong Kong
FED student CHEONG Tou Un was
awarded “Linguistic Excellence
Scholarship for Students of Macao” by
the French Consulate with an amount
of �€ 500 to complete a summer course
in France in August 2009. And it is
reported that CHEONG will be invited
to join the French National Day
celebrations soon. CHEONG has
shown great enthusiasm for French
language and has reached a high level
of proficiency in French.
Appendix:
Official name: Bourse linguistique
d’excellence pour étudiants de Macao
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(Linguistic excellence scholarships for
students of Macao)
Selection criteria: applicants must be
students registered both at the Alliance
Francaise of Macao (in a advanced
level course) and in a higher education
institution in Macao (any program)
Application requirement: fill in the
application form available on the site of
Alliance Francaise of Macao +
interview for the short-listed candidates
Duration: at least two weeks in one of
the French institution listed in the
Qualité FLE directory
(www.qualitefle.fr)
All FED 1st year master
students attended a meeting on
thesis writing
On 14 May, all FED year-one master
students attended the meeting on thesis
writing. Dr. Wei Bing, Coordinator of
PhD and Master Degree Programmes,
chaired this meeting. Ms Chan Siu
Kuan, Lindi participated and several
teachers of FED were also invited.
Dr. Wei Bing reminded all to contact
their supervisors and decide on the
thesis titles so as to start the research
work as early as possible. Particularly,
Dr. Wei Bing warned part-time master
students that they should focus on their
thesis and finish it without interruptions,
as many part-time master students
postponed their theses until very late
judging by past experiences. He also
emphasized the relationship between
the supervisor and the student. And
Associate Prof. Ieung Shing On,
Assistant Prof. Wu Mei-Jun and
Assistant Prof. Yeung Siu Kwai were
invited to share their research
experience with all.
It is said that Dr. Wei Bing would pass
student feedback to all the supervisors
according to the form filled out by the
students concerning the thesis
composition, with some adjustment.
This meeting gave the students a sense
of urgency and hastened them to work
on the thesis writing.
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Lunch Seminar Series V “Once
upon a time, there was a city
called Macao: Revisiting Macao
through its city space”
Lunch Seminar Series V “Once upon a
time, there was a city called Macao:
Revisiting Macao through its city
space”, organized by Educational
Research Centre of Faculty of
Education, was held on 29 April, 2009.
Mr. Lei Chin Pang, a young scholar
from Macao, was invited to be the
guest speaker. Dr. Vong Sou Kuan,
Director of the ERC, chaired this
seminar, and about 60 UM students
participated.
Dr. Vong started the seminar by asking
“As Macanese and local people, how
do you recognize Macao in such a land
where western and eastern cultures
exist side by side?” Mr. Lei then
proposed to re-recognize Macao
through the city space, which is
different from the routine approach by
Hong Kong and Macao mass media.
Among the basic necessities of life,
clothing, food, housing, and
transportation, it is housing that
becomes the biggest issue, due to the
limitation of city space. And the city
space is the ideal illustration of a city’s
change in history. Yeas ago in Macao,
Hotel Lisboa and Chapel of Our Lady
Penha were the symbol of power of
these islands; later, the Bank of China
Building took over and became the
landmark of Macao in 1990’s. Now
numerous grand casinos have been
shaping the city space. Looking at the
trends of the world, from the churches
of the Middle Ages, to the tall
chimneys and black smoke of the
industrial era, then the skyscrapers and
the high tower for communication and
tourism industries nowadays, it can be
seen from the city space that a lot of
change has taken place. And Macao is
no exception. Currently, tourism has a
significant impact on Macao space.
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AAccaaddeemmiicc EExxcchhaannggeess
During the Q & A period, some
students referred to the expanding
casinos, taking up more and more city
space, and having more and more
impact on individual life. But people
have got used to this and won’t voice
opinions. A participating teacher talked
about a curious phenomenon of Tap
Seak Square and its inappropriate
design. Mr. Lei had a heated discussion
with all participants on these questions
and at last called on the university
students to have more concern about
these issues and not just care about
themselves. Whenever one comes
across problems, one has to think about
it and face it with courage instead of
keeping silent or just keep complaining
all the time.
Prof. Ruth Hayhoe from
Toronto University visited FED
of UM
On the afternoon of May 25th, Prof.
Ruth Hayhoe from Toronto University
visited FED of UM and met with Prof.
Shan Wen Jin, Dean of FED. In the
afternoon, Prof. Ruth Hayhoe gave
FED students and staff a brief lecture,
sharing her recent research findings on
the Mass High Education in China. She
believed that Chinese universities
would develop dialogues among
civilizations, which means that the
latest international developmental trend
of tertiary education will replace the
current periphery-center point of view.
The periphery-center view implies
exclusiveness and mono center, while
the tertiary education will develop with
multiple centers complementing each
other in the future.
Global cultural development from a
macro perspective was the main focus
of Prof. Ruth Hayhoe’s report, and was
divided into three parts. The first part
presented the developmental trends of
Chinese university students and
discussed the growing importance of
Chinese universities on global cultural
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exchanges. Then she explored the
institutional culture of Chinese
universities. She believed that the
tradition of Chinese universities had
impacts on the medieval European
universities, especially the impacts of
self-mastery and self-governance of
Chinese universities on European
universities’ autonomy and academic
freedom, which represented the core
value of Chinese intellectuals. In the
second part, Prof. Ruth Hayhoe
pinpointed two phenomena that
appeared in Chinese or Far East
universities in face of globalization by
recalling the life stories of several
famous rectors from China’s key
universities: first, there is a tendency
for states to impose greater control on
universities for the sake of “national
competitiveness”; second, East Asian
universities, as inventors of
bureaucracy, can demonstrate
effectiveness of autonomy as
self-mastery. In the third part, Prof.
Hayhoe maintained that there exists
different epistemology between China
and Europe hidden beneath the surface
of these phenomena.
Prof. Ruth Hayhoe is a professor from
the Theory and Educational Policy
Department of Toronto University, and
is the former president of World
Council of Comparative Education
Society, and Dean of Faculty of
Education of Hong Kong Institute of
Education. She is a very active and
energetic comparative education
scholar, and can speak English,
Cantonese and Mandarin fluently. She
has served in Hong Kong Institute of
Education for many years, and then has
a good knowledge of Hong Kong and
Chinese culture and education.
Seminar on Spatial
Measurement Content in
Elementary Curricula in the
States
On 15 May , FED teachers and
students were invited to join a seminar
on educational psychology and
mathematics education held by the
Center of Educational Research on
Well-rounded Growth and
Development at J412. Professor John P.
Smith from Michigan State University
(MSU), who used to be Dr. Sze’s
supervisor, was the invited speaker, and
Dr. Sze, Director of the Center, chaired
the seminar.
Prof. Smith is the Co-director of
Educational Psychology and
Educational Technology Doctoral
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Program at MSU. He is an international
well-known scholar in the discipline.
One of his papers, Misconception
reconceived: A constructivist analysis
of knowledge in transition published on
the Journal of Learning Sciences was
seen as a classic in the discipline.
Prof. Smith shared with all participants
his current NSF (National Science
Foundation) funded project, Spatial
Measurement Content (length, area,
and volume) in U.S. Elementary
Curricula. He began by giving a brief
introduction to his personal experience,
and explained the reason why he was
so fascinated with Mathematics. Then
he shared his current research in
Michigan, which was originated from
the phenomena that American children
found it’s difficult to do simple task of
measurement. He gave explicit
explanation to his research process and
findings, which was of great help to all
present.
“Improving Middle School
Science Curriculum and
Instruction in Macao”
Workshop
On 20 May, Prof Mei-Hung Chiu from
National Taiwan Normal University,
Prof. Din-yan Yip from Chinese
University of Hong Kong and Mr. Chen
Jian from the Educational Bureau of
Nashan District in Shenzhen,
Guangdong Province, were invited to
be guest speakers for the workshop
“Improving School Science Curriculum
and Instruction in Macao”, which was
chaired by Dr. Wei Bing from FED of
UM. These three distinguished guests,
having strong academic background in
chemistry, biology and physics
respectively shared their experience of
science teaching in Taiwan, the
mainland and Hong Kong. Prof. Shan,
Dean of FED, was present at the
workshop, and directors, science
teachers from different middle schools
in Macao and master students of FED
also participated.
Dr. Wei Bing first welcomed these
three guests, and briefly introduced
them to the audience and expressed his
hope to improve science curriculum
and instruction in Macao by learning
from the
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experience of other regions. Then, Prof.
Shan presented the three special guests
with souvenirs. Next, Prof. Din-yan Yip
delivered a speech on “From an
Investigation of Students’ Science
Concepts in Taiwan to the
Development of Modeling Ability in
Science Education”, during which she
introduced the eight-year project of
junior and senior high school students’
puzzle about the chemical concepts,
and proposed the ideas of double – tier
test items and development of
modeling ability. Mr. Chen Jian
reported “On the Teaching Effect in
Classroom” from four aspects: teaching
objective, basic knowledge, teaching
strategies and assessment, emphasizing
the same level of basic knowledge of
all students in a class and high
relevance between teaching objective
and teaching activities. Prof. Din-yan
Yip gave a talk on “Learning Science
form the History”, advocating the idea
that leaning science through the
conceptual development history and the
story of scientists’ constructing the
theory in history. He also illustrated his
speech with a lot of vivid examples of
biological experiments, which
impressed all participants.
During the Q&A session, the three
guests, together with the audience, had
a heated discussion about the
integration of science subjects, and how
to manage resources when science is
taught and learned from history.
In the unique social context of Macao,
there is a need for new perspectives,
and new teaching methods to interest
the students and make them realize the
importance of science learning, so as to
improve school science curriculum and
instruction. This workshop provided a
good platform for all the science
teachers at the right time.
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