This study was conducted to identify whether there was a significant relationship between personality and teaching effectiveness of English teachers from the perceptions of students at Dianchi College of Yunnan University in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. The Big Five Inventory, which was originally designed by John and Srivastava (1999), was used for measuring the level of personality of English teachers at Dianchi College of Yunnan University in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. Student Instructi...

The main purpose of this study is todevelop an instructional leadership model for outcome-based education which has to be implemented in private higher education institutions in Cambodia. An exploratory sequential mixed-method (quantitative and qualitative) was employed for the study. Five private universities in Cambodia with 211 lecturers and 10 academic administrators participated in the study. Survey was used to collect the quantitative data with lecturers and interview was held to collect qualit...

The primary objective of this study was to investigate the effect of parenting dimensions (warmth, rejection, structure, chaos, autonomy support, & coercion) on university students’ college adjustment and academic performance, being mediated by basic psychological need satisfaction, self-esteem and academic engagement. The participants of the study were 1224 university students (700 females and 524 males), aged between 18 and 25 years, who had attended international degree programs in Bangkok, Thailand. Data ...

An increasing number of lesbians in Thailand have entered parenthood, some through the context of formal heterosexual marriage, others through adoption and artificial insemination. As same-sex marriage is illegal in Thailand, accurate statistics have been difficult to acquire on the number of lesbian households. This qualitative study explores the experience of Thai lesbian parents who are within the empty spaces of Thai society, with little or no social and legal support. Seven lesbianparents from six provinces across Thailand were r...

The purpose of this research were to examine the level of parents’ and teachers’ perceptions of students’ social-emotional development, and the relationship of the students’ social-emotional development with their Chinese language learning achievement of Nursery 2 (N2) at a trilingual international school in Bangkok. In this research, 81 parents and 28 teachers of 81 N2 students enrolled in the 2017-2018 school year in this school participated. This research followed a quantitative research methodology employing thequ...

The objective of this study was to develop a professional learning community model to enhance the instructional leadership capabilities of middle school teachers. This study focused on middle schools in Maoming, Guangdong province of China. The study utilized a mixed-methods approach which involved both content analysis, interviews and questionnaires. A random sample of 613 middle school teachers participated in the research which examined principals’ capabilities and professional learning communities ...

The purpose of conducting this research was to determine the level of teachers’ self-efficacy when teaching STEM subjects and their attitudes towards STEM education at Wattana Wittaya Academy in Bangkok, Thailand. A second purpose was to determine whether there was a significant difference in teachers’ self-efficacy for teaching STEM subjects and attitudes toward STEM education according to gender. As a source of data collection, the researcher used Teachers’ Self-Efficacy for Teaching STEM Subjects and Attitudes Towar...

This study was designed to identify middle school students’ mathematics self-efficacy and mathematics anxiety levels at the Pan-Asia International School (PAIS) in Thailand and to determine if there was a significant difference among students’ mathematics self-efficacy and mathematics anxiety levels according to their gender and the grade level, and further aimed out to find out if any statistically significant relationship between their mathematics self-efficacy and the mathematics anxiety exists...

The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate if there was a significant relationship of self-efficacy and perceived parental encouragement for learning English as a foreign language with English academic achievement of Batch 5 and Batch 6 students at Level Up Academy, Loikaw Township, Kayah State, Myanmar. A population sample of 71 students from Batch 5 (34 students) and Batch 6 (37 students), enrolled during the academic year 2017-2018, was chosen for this study. A 32-item questionnai...

This study was conducted to identify whether there was a significant difference in perception of ICT use in the classroom between Grades 3 and 4 students learning Chinese as a foreign language at Prasarnmit Primary School International Program (PPiP)in Bangkok, Thailand. Also, this study examined the relationship between the perception of ICT use in the classroom held by these students and their academic achievement in Chinese language class. ICT Use in Learning Chinese Questionnaire, comprised of 13 items using a...

The purpose of this study was to find if cooperative teaching methods in Watbangchalongnai School, Samut Prakan, Thailand, would enhance Grade 6 students’ English academic achievement, measured by their abilities in grammar, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. The study also sought to measure students’ motivation for learning English as a foreign language (EFL). For the purpose of the study, the researcher conducted an intervention experiment for 12 weeks, from December 2018 to March 2019, in which two intact Grade 6 group...

The purpose of this study was to determine students’ perceptions and their actual behaviors toward physical education course and to investigate if there is a significant difference in students’ perceptions and their actual behaviors in Grades10 and 11 at a public high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Quantitative method and questionnaire was used to collect the quantitative data from 317 students (Grade 10 = 160 and Grade 11 = 157) from the public high school. The questionnaire was adopted from Chi-Kwong (1999) ...

This study investigated students’ perception of English communication anxiety and of English oral skills self-efficacy, and subsequently conducted a grade-level comparison in terms of these variables. The sample of this study consisted of 66 English Program Grades 7 to 9 students at The Demonstration School of Ramkhamhaeng University in the academic year 2018 -2019. The study employed a quantitative research methodology utilizing two questionnaires to collect data. The first qu...

This study was conductedto investigate 63 Grade 3 and66 Grade 4 students’ attitudes toward learning Chinese as a foreign language (in terms ofaffective, behavioral and cognitive components) at an international school in academic year 2018-2019 in Samut Prakarn, Thailand. It was designed as a quantitative and comparative study. An adopted version of The Attitude toward Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language Questionnaireby Abidin,Pour-Mohammadiand Alzwari(2012)was used for data collection. The questionnaire included ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship among attitudes toward recreational reading in English and attitudes toward academic reading in English with reading achievement of Grades 3 to 5 English as a foreign languageforstudents at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. The Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS) was used to collect data from 24 Grade 3 students, 20 Grade 4 students, and 23 Grade 5 students during the first term of 2018-2019. Descriptive statistics such as means, standar...