Happy teachers make happy students: The social contagion of well-being from teachers to their students

MJN Nalipay, RB King, Y Cai - School Mental Health, 2024 - Springer
As the teaching profession becomes more demanding and teachers' work conditions
become increasingly challenging, recent reports have shown declining levels of teacher well …

Students' expectancy-value profiles in the West and the East: Cross-cultural similarities and differences

J Li, RB King, SO Leung, C Wang - Learning and Individual Differences, 2024 - Elsevier
The renaming of expectancy-value theory (EVT) to situated expectancy-value theory (SEVT)
highlights researchers' recognition that culture and context are fundamental to …

[HTML][HTML] Joy is reciprocally transmitted between teachers and students: Evidence on facial mimicry in the classroom

AC Frenzel, M Dindar, R Pekrun, C Reck… - Learning and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Structured Abstract Background The critical importance of positive emotions for classroom
functioning is well established and teachers' and learners' trait-based joy during class has …

Examining the mediation of engagement between self-efficacy and language achievement

Y Cai, K **ng - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Numerous studies have shown that students' belief in their ability to execute behaviours to
successfully perform second/foreign language (L2) tasks (ie self-efficacy) is positively …

The moderation of culture dimensions on the relationships between expectancy-value factors and reading achievement

Y Cai, J Lin - Learning and Individual Differences, 2024 - Elsevier
The expectancy-value theory (EVT) explains the relationship between reading achievement
and expectancy-value factors (ie, self-concept and task value). As an extension of EVT, the …

Associations between elementary teachers' mental health and students' engagement across content areas

L McLean, KL Granger, JC Chow - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Teachers' mental health has been recognized as relevant to teacher effectiveness, with past
work identifying impacts of teachers' mental health on teacher, classroom, and student …

Assessment is contagious: The social contagion of formative assessment practices and self-efficacy among teachers

Z Yan, RB King - Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Social contagion has been documented across various domains. However, this
phenomenon has not been explored in relation to formative assessment in schools. This …

More is not always better: The nonlinear relationship between formative assessment strategies and reading achievement

Y Cai, M Yang, J Yao - … in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the relationship between formative assessment and reading
achievement in Hong Kong, a Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) society. 4,837 Hong Kong …

English foreign language teachers' beliefs about adult learners' engagement

I Acosta-Manzano, S Mercer - The Language Learning Journal, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
How teachers understand their learners' engagement and in-class behaviours affects their
approaches to teaching, thereby making their beliefs critical mediators of their pedagogical …

Do People From Different Cultures Vary in How Much Positive Emotions Resonate in Day-to-Day Social Interactions? Examining the Role of Relational Mobility

J Zhou, TN West, SH Lee, I Choi… - Journal of Cross …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Positivity resonance, defined as a co-experienced kind-hearted positive emotion, is
commonly observed to strengthen relationships in the United States. However, it is unclear …