Thesis Database

Programme: MA in Psychology

Supervisor: Kitty Yau-Fong FUNG

Student name: Fuk Wing LO

Thesis title:

Doomed to failure? The roles of academic self-esteem and teacher expectancy in the academic achievement of students with high reading difficulty

Keywords: reading difficulty, academic achievement, self-esteem, teacher expectancy, growth mindset

Participants: 63 secondary students and 6 Chinese teachers in Hong Kong

Measures: Hong Kong Behaviour Checklist of Specific Learning Difficulties in Reading and Writing for Junior Secondary School Students, Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents

Measures abr: BCL-JS, SPPA

Abstract: abstract/2020-2021MA/LoFukWing_abstract.pdf

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