Project

Project Tittle Project Type Funding Body Principle-Investigator Co-Investigator Year
Research Grants
Investigating Parents’ Assessment Literacy in the Digital Era and its Association with Students’ Academic Learning: Instrument Development and Model Validation   General Research Grant Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Zhu Jinxin 2026-2028
Understanding student engagement with the feedback provided by Generative Artificial Intelligence: Patterns, dynamics and influencing factors   General Research Grant Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Zhan Ying 2026-2028
Bottom-up Assessment Reform: The Student-centred Assessment-driven Learning (SCADL) Platform (Project No.: SRFS2425-8H01)   RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yan Zi 2025-2029
Assessing the impact of feedback on self-directed learning in the age of generative AI: The role of university students’ evaluative feedback environment and feedback orientation (Project No.: 18611525)   General Research Grant Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yang Lan David Boud, Phillip Dawson, Dragan Gašević, Zi Yan, Di Zou 2025-2027
Foster or hinder learning? The role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the self-assessment process (Project No.: 18613924)   General Research Grant Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yan Zi Dr. Yang Lan 2025-2027
Improving Post-graduate Students’ Academic Writing through Generative AI-Assisted Feedback   FEHD Innovative Teaching Grant FEHD Dr. Zhu Jinxin 2025-2026
Provision of Services for Statistical Analysis for the Enhancement of the Mathematics Papers of Learning Achievement Measurement Kit (LAMK)   Service Project Education Bureau Dr. Zhu Jinxin 2025-2026
Investigating the Factors Associated with Teachers' Feedback Literacy: Instrument Development and Validation   Early Career Scheme (ECS) Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Zhu Jinxin 2024-2027
Understanding university students' informal statistical thinking using a computer adaptive testing system: Instrument development   EdUHK-Start up Research Grant The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) Dr. Zhu Jinxin 2024-2025
Developing students’ feedback literacy through online interactive peer assessment: Interaction modes, sequential behavioural patterns, and influential factors   General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Zhan Ying 2024-2025
Self-assessment Using ChatGPT in Foreign Language Learning: A Mixed-method Study in Translation Courses (Project No.: G-EdUHK803/23)   Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme Germany/Hong Kong Joint Funding Bodies (Not Specified in Detail) Dr. Yan Zi 2024-2025
Assessing the relationships between Chinese students’ feedback orientation, feedback literacy, and learning engagement: A structural equation modeling approach (Project No.: 18610923)   General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yang Lan Dr. Yan Zi 2023-2026
Investigating the facilitators and barriers of mathematics teachers’ assessment literacy in the digital era: Instrument development and validation   General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Zhu Jinxin 2022-2025
Dual Feedback Literacies of Pre-service Teachers: Temporal Change, Interplay, and Influential Factors   Early Career Scheme (ECS) Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Zhan Ying 2022-2024
Investigating Primary School Teachers’ E-assessment Practices, Intentions and Influencing Factors in the New Normal: Implications for Developing E-assessment Policy  Public policy research fund Dr. Zhang Ying Dr. So Wing Mui, Dr. Yan Zi 2022-2023
Developing students’ evaluative judgment and feedback literacy through self-assessment: An experimental study   General Research Grant Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yan Zi Prof. David Boud; Prof. Chiu Ming Ming; Dr. Ronnel King 2022-2023
When assessment meets higher-order thinking (HOT): Building up a cluster for integrating the research on assessment and HOT  Research Cluster Fund FEHD Dr. Zhang Ying Dr. Chiu Ming Ming, Dr. Yan Zi et al. 2021-2023
Harnessing the Power of Teacher Feedback to Enhance Learning Outcomes: The Roles of Students’ Feedback Orientations and Learning Engagement  General Research Grant Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yang Lan Prof. Chiu Ming Ming; LEUNG, Shing On; Prof SIN, Kuen Fung; TANG, Shaobing; Dr YAN, Zi 2021-2022
Unpacking Student Self-assessment Processes: A Longitudinal Naturalistic Experiment  General Research Fund Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yan Zi Prof. Gavin Brown; Prof. Chiu Ming Ming; Prof. Ko Po-yuk 2020-2021
Translating research into actionable approaches for developing student assessment literacy  Research Impact Grant EdUHK Dr. Yang Min Dr.Yan Zi;Dr. Yang Lan;Dr. Zhan Yin 2020-2021
Investigating Teacher Feedback Literacy from The Perspectives of Teacher Educator and Student Teachers: A Pilot Study  Start-up Research Grant EdUHK Dr. Zhan Ying 2020-2021
Investigation into the obstacles Hong Kong undergraduates encounter in online peer feedback processes: Dual perspectives  Seed Funding Grant EdUHK Dr. Zhan Ying Dr. Sun Daner 2020-2021
A Structural Understanding of Formative Assessment: Predictor, Intention, and Practice  General Research Fund Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yan Zi Dr. Cheng Chi Keung Eric; Prof. Mok Mo Ching Magdalena 2019-2021
Key Research Area “Assessment Research into Enhancing Learning and Teaching”  Research Cluster Fund EdUHK Dr. Yan Zi Dr. Yan Lan; Dr. Yang Min; Dr. Zhan Ying 2019-2021
Developing evaluative judgment among students: An Interactive Assessment and Feedback Process”  Seed Fund, The FEHD Internationalization and Exchange Research Scheme FEHD Dr Yan Zi 2019-2021
All that Effort of Feedback Research, But what is the Effect in Chinese Secondary Students? Identify Impact through INFACT (Innovative Formative Assessment Collaborative Team)  Research Cluster Fund EdUHK Dr. Yang Lan Dr. Yang Min; Dr Yan Zi; Prof.Mok Mo Ching Magdalena; Pro. Lee Chi Kin John; Prof. Chiu Ming Ming 2017-2020
Student Self-assessment: Calibration, predictors and effects  General Research Fund Research Grant Committee, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yan Zi Prof. Gavin Brown; Dr. Cheng Chi Keung Eric 2016-2017
Teaching Grants
Towards A Sustainable Assessment Reform through Developing a Professional Development Website for Formative Assessment (Project No.: 2022/0356)   Quality Education Fund Project Quality Education Fund (QEF) Dr. Yan Zi 2024-2025
Embedding Student Teachers’ Feedback Literacy Development in Online Peer Assessment Activities   Teaching Development Grant (TDG) Project Teaching Development Grant (TDG) Dr. Zhan Ying 2023-2024
What can secondary students benefit from Team-based E-Assessment (TEA) and immediate feedback? Examining the impact of TEA on student learning via knowledge-transfer activities   University Knowledge Transfer Office Grant Project University Knowledge Transfer Office Dr. Yang Lan Hui Xuan Xu 2022-2023
Dual Feedback Literacies of Pre-service Teachers: Temporal Change, Interplay and Influential Factors  Early career scheme Dr. Zhan Ying 2022-2022
Feedback Matters to Achievement, but How it is Proceeded Psychologically by University Students to Harness its Sustainable Power? A Cross-Cultural Longitudinal Study  Research cluster fund EdUHK Dr. Yang Lan Dr. Fok Ping Kwan, Dr. Yan Zi, Dr. Yang Lan, Dr. Zhan Ying et al. 2021-2023
Teachers' revised assessment practices and effects on secondary-four students' learning outcomes and wellbeing: Assessment reform of Liberal Studies / Civic and Social Development  Research cluster fund EdUHK Dr. Yang Min Dr. Yan Zi, Dr. Yang Min et al. 2021-2023
Enhancing Assessment Literacy in Schools: Synergizing Assessment-for-learning and Assessment-as-learning (Project No.: 2019/1094)  Quality Education Fund Project Quality Education Fund (QEF) Dr. Yan Zi 2021-2022
Cultivating student teachers’ capability for collaborative problem-solving in curriculum and assessment planning through communities of inquiry  Faculty level TDG EdUHK Dr. Yang Min Dr. Zhan Ying, Dr. Chan Ngok-Cheng, Dr. Yang Lan, et al. 2020-2022
Enhancing Assessment Literacy in Schools: Synergizing Assessment-for-learning and Assessment-as-learning  Quality Educaiton Fund Quality Educaiton Fund, Hong Kong Government Dr. Yan Zi Prof. Ko Po-yuk; Dr. Cheng Chi Keung Eric; Dr. Yang Min; Dr. Yang Lan; Dr. Lao Hong Ling 2021-2022
Harnessing the Power of Assessment to Support Pre-service Teachers' Learning and Professional Development Through an Innovative Blended Learning Approach (A+BLe)  Teaching Development Grant (University-level) EdUHK Dr. Yang Lan Prof LIM, Cher Ping; Dr FONG, Wai Tsz Ricci;Ms CHAN, Ngok Cheng; Dr FOK, Ping Kwan; Dr YAN, Zi ; Dr YUN, Pui Ho Patrick; Dr XU, Hui Xuan; Prof KO, Po Yuk; Dr HUI, Lai Ping Dorothy; Dr SUN, Jin; Dr YEUNG, Siu Sze; Dr BUCHTEL, Emma Ellen Kathrina; Dr GAO, Fang; Dr LU, Jiafang; Dr SZETO, Sing Ying Elson; Dr ZHANG, Qiaoping; 2020-2022
Developing school teachers’ capacity for collaborative knowledge building in a MOOC learning environment in Mainland China  Knowledge Transfer Grant EdUHK Dr. Yang Min Dr. Zhan Yin;Dr. Ma Ning 2020-2022
Supporting education students’ constructive peer feedback seeking and self-reflection  Innovative Teaching Grant EdUHK Dr. Yang Min Dr.Wan Zhihong.;Dr.Zhan Yin;Dr. Yang Lan 2020-2021
Harnessing the power of assessment to support pre-service teachers’ learning and professional development through an innovative blended learning approach (A + BLe)  University-Level Teaching Development Grant Project University-Level Teaching Development Grant Dr. Yang Lan Zi Yan, Cher Ping Lin, Daner Sun, Yuan Liang et al. (across FHM, FEHD, and FLASS) 2020-2021
Focused Knowledge Transfer Grant  Knowledge Transfer Grant FEHD, EdUHK Dr. Yan Zi Dr. Zhan Ying 2019-2021
Exploring an Innovative Teaching Approach (TBL) to Implement Formative Feedback to Support Students’ Learning  Innovative Teaching Fund EdUHK Dr. Yang Lan Dr. Yeung Siu Sze 2018-2019
Enhancing learning engagement and outcomes through formative e-assessment tasks in the General Education foundation course  Teaching Development Grant EdUHK Dr. Zhan Ying Dr. Sun Daner, Chan Ngok Cheng,Dr. Chan Kam Wing, Lam Tak Shing;Dr. Lee Tai Hoi 2018-2019
Developing Peer-and Self-assessment Strategies for the Enhancement of Student Learning Outcomes  Teaching Development Grant (Faculty-level) EdUHK Dr. Yang Min Dr. Yang Lan; Dr.Xu Huixuan;Dr.Lee Tai Hoi Theodore;Dr. Han Chung Wai Christina 2017-2018
Enhancing information literacy (IL) in Hong Kong higher education through the development and implementation of shared interactive multimedia courseware   UGC Teaching & Learning Project on Information Literacy University Grants Committee (UGC) Dr. Yang Lan 2017-2018

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