The Values Education for Entrepreneurial Spirit (VEES) Virtual Learning Platform: Nurturing Students’ Entrepreneurial Spirit and Sense of Belonging to the Greater-Bay-Area (GBA)
The goal of the research is to refine the platform and determine its effectiveness. As section 2.5 stated, pedagogical advancement and student growth serve as the primary indicators for measuring the success of this project/platform and offering insights on how to improve the platform further. Table 3 shows the relationship between project objectives, expected outcomes, measurement terms, qualitative evidence, and contributions. 7.1 Quantitative Research: Purpose and Sampling: The quantitative research aims to illustrate the measurable POs1-3 by comparing the impact on teachers and students after using the platform. If the analysis reveals positive changes in both pedagogical advancement and student growth, it will support the effectiveness of our platform in achieving the POs. All students (targeting 1,700 students) and teachers (targeting 40 teachers) will be invited to join the research on a voluntary basis. Data collection: For teachers, we will gather data using pre- and post-questionnaires. We will assess their self-efficacy, technology experience, incentives, and self-assessment to determine their pedagogical advancement in using our platform. We will also research training and management support to gauge the effectiveness of our team's assistance. For students, we will employ a two-pronged approach to collect data: pre- and post-questionnaires, and students' assessment performance. We will measure students' perceptions of entrepreneurial spirit, their sense of belonging to the GBA, their roles within the GBA, and their scores and completion of multiple-choice questions to research their growth in entrepreneurial spirit and understanding of their roles in the GBA. Additionally, we will assess content, ease of use, flexibility of the learning experience, in-person session learning experience, and self-assessment which reflects both the pedagogical advancement of teachers and the effectiveness of our support from the students’ perspectives. Analysis:Analysis: To accurately analyse the survey data, we will test each construct’s survey items and internal validity, while minimizing their measurement errors with Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) (Joreskog & Sorbom, 2018). Then, we will compare pre- and post-descriptive results by using t-tests to reflect pedagogical advancement and student growth. As we assume that the platform and our support will enhance pedagogical advancement leading to student growth, we will conduct a regression model as the focal predictor, with posttest entrepreneurial spirit and students’ sense of belonging to GBA as the outcome variable, and its corresponding pretest scores as a covariate, to test the effectiveness of VEES platform. We will also conduct descriptive and exploratory analysis to examine their learning process and assessment performance within the platform. We aim to examine the pathways through which the VEES virtual learning platform affects teacher’ pedagogical advancement and student growth. See Appendix 9 for the details. 7.2 Qualitative Research: Purpose: The objective of this research is to gather evidence and insights from Cycle 1 and 2 pilot schools, ensuring that our platform's refinement aligns with the needs of both teachers and students. The multiple case study design will provide a more profound understanding of the experiences of both students and teachers when they use the VEES platform. This will also provide a comprehensive overview of the changes in students' values and attitudes toward their entrepreneurial spirit and sense of belonging to the GBA and have insightful implications beyond.
Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing, Maxwell
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Investigating the Potential of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems to Spur School Innovativeness
This research project investigates Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) in education, focusing on their role in fostering innovation across schools. Through mixed methods including case studies and surveys, it aims to identify key actors, mechanisms for sustaining innovations, and factors influencing EE evolution. The study's findings aim to inform theory, practice, and policy in educational innovation.
Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing, Maxwell
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'Train the Trainer': Aspiring School Leaders as Entrepreneurial Trainers in Practices
The project is a school-based teacher professional development programme. The project team (1) trained the trainer to (2) conduct entrepreneurialism training with (3) a blended learning platform support at school. The school-based teacher professional development programme integrated teacher entrepreneurialism and employ a ‘train the trainer’ approach to form the school-based training. This project addressed the Hong Kong Education Bureau (EDB) policy for new teacher professional standards (for detail information, please refer to Section 5(i)). The project's primary aim is to equip teachers with entrepreneurial skills and develop school-based teacher training. All of the training materials developed was integrated via a blended learning online platform. This provided self-paced learning opportunities for the teachers and expand the learning community network from the initial pilot schools to other schools and teachers across Hong Kong.
Project Start Year: 2021, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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School-based Middle leadership Training (2020/21)
This project aims at applying the research findings on edupreneur in particular into supporting middle leadership development in schools. The team employs a practice-oriented approach to guide teachers’ professional reflection that can be used to review and develop middle and teacher leaders as ‘Edupreneurs’ in schools.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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Production of e-Learning Packages for the Professional Development and Training of Principals and Teachers under the “T-excel@hk” Project
This project aims to provide services for the production of e-learning packages for the professional development and training the in-service principals and teachers in Hong Kong. T-surf 24/7 which is one of the focus areas under the "T-excel@hk" Project, is a one-stop portal that enables the teaching profession to have easy access to information on various professional development programmes offered by the Education Bureau (EDB), tertiary institutions and other educational bodies, as well as various e-learning resources and repositories for self-paced learning. While the "Pilot Scheme on Self-paced e-Learning Course Fee Reimbursement for Teachers" under T-surf 24/7 has been implemented since March 2018 to encourage teachers to participate in various kinds of e-learning courses or web-based seminars (webinars), the production of local tailor-made e-learning packages for in-services principals and teachers to further facilitate the paradigm shift of principals and teachers from traditional face-to-face lessons to on-line e-learning programmes.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): CHAN, Tsan Ming Kenneth 陳湛明, HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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Investigating Hong Kong Students' Aspirations for the Future
In recent months, school students have organized school strikes, class boycotts, human protest
chains, joined front-line protests, been arrested (30% under 18 years) and shot (2 students; 14
& 18 years), with more than 300 school students involved in the PolyU siege. For other students, the protests disrupted their schooling and their relationships with family, peers and teachers. The longer-term impact on their aspirations, futures and sense of belonging/connectedness to Hong Kong is unknown.This project seeks to map Hong Kong adolescents’ (15-18 years) aspirations and views on the resources/capital needed to achieve their aspirations for the future, and how Hong Kong schools and society can help.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): HALSE CHRISTINE MARGARET (HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲 as Co-Investigator)
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Service Leadership 3Cs for Entrepreneurial Teacher Leaders
- Disseminate the service leadership model and teacher entrepreneurialism as a teaching professional training programme
- Illustrate how service leadership and teacher entrepreneurialism address prevailing concerns in schools
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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An Adaptive Blended Learning Platform for Business Teachers and Students to Work as a Learning Community
Enhancing business education through constructing and adaptive blended learning community for teachers and students. This project will construct an adaptive blended learning community for business teachers and students and investigate and inform educators about student’s learning patterns in pursuing a blended learning approach. The project will generate blended learning materials for teachers and students, build a business-subject teachers’ community and develop business-related teaching materials.
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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School-based Middle leadership Training (2019/20)
The project team aims at applying the research findings on edupreneur in particular into supporting middle leadership development in schools. The team employs a practice-oriented approach to guide teachers’ professional reflection that can be used to review and develop middle and teacher leaders as ‘Edupreneurs’ in schools.
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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Developing Middle Leaders as Entrepreneurial Teachers
Disseminate the research result of teacher entrepreneurialism as a teaching professional training programme
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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A Reflective Journey: Using Logbook for Consolidating Experiential Learning, Innovative Teaching (Beyond e-Learning)
The project is built upon the theoretical framework of Action Learning. It utilizes a course logbook to help students document the learning reflection-in-journey so as to enable them to reflect critically and collaboratively in the authentic learning process at the end of the course.
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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Designing an eLearning Package
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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Business education forum 2018 cum Press release of business teachers survey
Aim – Support teacher in business education to enhance their policy implementation and middle leadership capabilities.
Objective:
1. Identify the needs of business education
2. Develop a master plan for support business education
3. Expanding the network of the department of education policy and leadership to business teachers and business corporates
4. Connect business corporates to support business education
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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Adapting the FoolProof Curriculum to promote Personal Finance Education in the Hong Kong Community
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): YU, Wai Mui Christina 姚偉梅 (HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲 as Co-Investigator)
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Development of the HK Financial Competency Framework 2.0
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): YU, Wai Mui Christina 姚偉梅 (HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲 as Co-Investigator)
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Constructing an Interactive Journey for Students' Field Experience Reflection
This is designed to help students, on an ongoing basis, to enhance and learn from their field experience thereby making it easier to prepare their reflection.
Each supervisor will be responsible for a specified number of students. The supervisor will have access to the students’ progress in using the app. The information will remain available to any later supervisor and so will represent an entire picture throughout the student’s teaching practice.
Project Start Year: 2017, Principal Investigator(s): KWAN, Yuet Ling Linda 關月玲 (HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲 as Co-Investigator)
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Business teacher entrepreneurialism ‘Being a leader of curriculum planning’
Project Start Year: 2017, Principal Investigator(s): HO, Chun Sing Maxwell 何振聲
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