Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development

General Research

1. Knowledge and behavior change with COVID-19 among Hong Kong primary students: An intervention study with animated videos, Dean’s Research Fund of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, EdUHK, Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

Major outputs:

Knowledge and behavior change with COVID-19 among Hong Kong primary students: An intervention study with animated videos (in preparation).

2. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education: Giving Voice to Teachers on notion of integration, Dean’s Research Fund of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, EdUHK, Jun 2020 - Jun 2021

Major outputs:

Teacher self-efficacy and instructional method use for STEM integration: How teachers' views of school matters? (in preparation).

3. Teacher professional development with peer coaching: STEM education for students with intellectual disabilities, General Research Fund, Jan 2019 - Jun 2020

Major outputs:

So, W. M. W., He, Q., Cheng, N. Y. I., Lee, T. H. T., & Li, W. C. (2022). Engaging Students with Intellectual Disability in STEM Learning, Science Education International, 33(1), 25-37. https://doi.org/10.33828/sei.v33.i1.3.
So, W. M. W., He, Q., Cheng, N. Y. I., Lee, T. H. T., & Li, W. C. (2021). Teachers’ Professional Development with Peer Coaching to Support Students with Intellectual Disabilities in STEM Learning. Educational Technology & Society, 24(4), 86–98.
So, W. M. W.*, Li, J., and He, Q. (2019). Teacher Professional Development for STEM Education: Adaptations for Students with Intellectual Disabilities. In Y. S. Hsu and Y. F. Yeh (Eds.), Asia-Pacific STEM Teaching Practices, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0768-7_6.

4. Understanding the extent of the integration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in students' inquiry activities, Dean’s Research Fund of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, EdUHK, May 2019 - May 2020

Major outputs:

So, W. M. W. (2021). Does computation technology matter in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects? Research in Science & Technological Education. doi: 10.1080/02635143.2021.1895099
Wan, Z. H., So, W. M. W., & Zhan, Y. (2020). Developing and validating a scale of STEM project-based learning experience. Research in Science Education. doi: 10.1007/s11165-020-09965-3

5. Challenges and Opportunities with Hong Kong students’ Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics aspirations, Public Policy Research Fund, Dec 2018 – Mar 2020

Major outputs:

“Conceptualizing and Exploring Capital for Students’ STEM Aspirations” submitted to Journal of Research in Science Teaching (in preparation)
“STEM career aspirations: Does students’ social identity matter?” (submitted)
Chen, Y., Chiu, W. K. S., Zhu, J, & So, W. M. W (2022). Maintaining secondary school students’ STEM career aspirations: the role of perceived parental expectations, self-efficacy, and cultural capital. International Journal of Science Education. DOI:10.1080/09500693.2022.2032463
So, W. M. W., & Chiu, W. K. S. (2020). Challenges and Opportunities with Hong Kong students’ Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics aspirations. (Report No. 2018.A5.041.18C). Hong Kong: Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office. https://www.pico.gov.hk/doc/en/research_report(PDF)/2018.A5.041.18C_Final%20Report_Prof%20So.pdf

6. Teachers’ conceptual change in their pedagogical practices with e-textbook: From conception to realization, General Research Fund, Jan 2016 - Jun 2018

Major outputs:

So, W. M. W.*, Chen, Y., Wan, P. (2019). Multimedia e-learning and self-regulated science learning: A study of primary school learners’ experiences and perceptions, Journal of Science Education and Technology, 28, 508-522.
So, W. M. W.*, Kong, S. C., Wan, Z., Chen, Y. (2018). An analysis of approaches to inquiry in a multimedia learning environment of e-textbook. Curriculum and Teaching, 33(2), 67-89. doi: 10.7459/ct/33.2.05
So, W. M. W.* & Chen, Y. (2018). Why e-learning matters: developing early elementary school students’ understanding of the Seasons. Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 19(2), 1-14.
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