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No. Name of PI Project Title (Eng) Start Date End Date
1 SUN JIN Early Childhood Educators’ Work-Related Wellbeing: A Comparative Study between Hong Kong and Macau 2023-08-25 2025-08-24
2 HO IEONG CHENG A Cross-Cultural Study on Collaborative Music Learning in Higher Education in the US, the UK, Portugal, Australia, and China 2023-02-20 2026-02-19
3 LIN XIN Develop and Implement Mathematics Vocabulary Intervention for Students Experiencing Mathematics Learning Difficulties 2023-01-12 2026-01-11
4 ZHOU NAN Chinese High School Students’Career Development: Individual, Family, and School Influences 2022-09-13 2025-09-12
5 CHEN FU Deep Collaborative Filtering-Based Learning Outcome Modeling Systems for Computer-Based Assessments for Learning 2021-11-25 2024-11-24
6 LIN LIJIA Using Process Data to Uncover the Effects of Learning Strategies in Technology Environments 2022-11-10 2025-11-09
7 TANG XIAOWEI What give rise to idiosyncratic epistemic practices in science classroom: From a complex system perspective 2022-02-17 2025-02-16
8 YU SHULIN Understanding second language student writers’ lived experiences of informal writing: A phenomenology approach 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
9 CHING HO HONG BOBY Examining the Associations between Academic Contingent Self-Esteem, Failure Mindset, and Mastery Behavior: A Multimethod Project 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
10 WEI BING A Study of Primary Teachers’ Perceptions about Science Curriculum in China: From the Lens of Curriculum Ideology 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
11 YUAN RUI Integrating “big ideas” into language teaching: A collaborative action research 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
12 BARRY LEE REYNOLDS Rethinking Unfocused Written Corrective Feedback for Writing Development 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
13 KAM CHUN SENG Possible nonlinear relationship between regular- and reverse-keyed items: Causes and modeling solutions 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
14 ZHANG JUAN Cantonese Pinyin instruction facilitates reading development in Macau children 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
15 KONG ZHAOWEI Effects of Sprint Interval Training in Normoxia and Hypoxia on Physiological and Psychological Health in Sedentary Young Adults 2023-01-01 2024-12-31
16 JIANG CHUNLIAN Learning Trajectory of High School Students in Function 2022-01-01 2023-12-31
17 SUNG MIN-CHUAN Action Research on Understanding Preservice and Inservice Teachers’ Metaphors for Curriculum in the Pedagogical Context 2022-01-01 2023-12-31
18 VONG SOU KUAN What kind of citizen? Whose identity? – An interdisciplinary content analysis of textbooks of five subjects in Macao primary schools 2022-01-01 2023-12-31
19 GONG YANG Strategic responses to cultural adaptation challenges during study abroad: The case of Chinese as a foreign/second language learners in China 2022-01-01 2023-12-31

No. Funding Scheme Name of PI Project Title (Eng) Start Date End Date
1 Innovation and Technology Promotion KONG ZHAOWEI The effect of ketone ester supplementation and ketogenic diet on brain plasticity in overweight/obese adults: a neurophysiological and resting functional magnetic resonance study (rfMRI) 10/1/2022 9/1/2024