About the Project

Phase I (2001 ‒ 2004) Phase II (2004 ‒ 2006) Phase III (2006 ‒ 2009) Phase IV (2009 ‒ 2011) Phase V (2012 ‒ 2015) The Project Team	Phase I (2001 ‒ 2004)
		Life Skills Development among Senior Secondary School Students in Hong Kong : An Assessment Instrument, a Resource Guide and a Website (Sponsored by Quality Education Fund)
	Objectives
	To identify the essential life skills competencies to be achieved by senior secondary students in Hong Kong . To develop and validate a sound psychometric instrument, Life Skills Self-Efficacy Inventory, for assessing life skills competencies among senior secondary students in Hong Kong . To promote the concept, resource materials and good practice of life skills development.


	Target
		Fifty-seven secondary schools have participated in our group discussion sessions and/or the research study, which means more than 9 000 S.4 to S.7 students have benefited.

	Phase II (2004 ‒ 2006)
		Life Skills Development among Senior Primary and Junior Secondary Students: Its Relations to Comprehensive Developmental Guidance Programs in Schools (Sponsored by Research Grant Council)
	Objectives
	To assess the life skills development among senior primary and junior secondary students in Hong Kong . To examine the longitudinal relations between the level of implementation of comprehensive developmental guidance programs in schools and adolescents' life skills development.
	Target
		About 100 primary schools and 100 secondary schools are expected to participate in the research study, which means that an estimate of 16 000 students will benefit.

	Phase III (2006 ‒ 2009)
		Life Skills Development and School Connectedness among Senior Secondary Students: Relations to Comprehensive Developmental Guidance Programs in Schools (Sponsored by Research Grant Council)
	Objectives
	To assess the life skills development of Hong Kong senior secondary school students and their connection with their schools . To examine the longitudinal inter-relations between the level of implementation of comprehensive developmental guidance programs in schools, adolescents' life skills development and school connectedness beyond social factors .
	Target
		About 100 secondary schools are expected to join in the study.

	Phase IV (2009‒ 2011)
		Connectedness and Life Skills Development among Primary School Students: Relationship to Comprehensive Developmental Guidance Programs in Schools
	Objectives
	To develop and validate measures, in particular: (i) The Parental Connectedness Scale and School Connectedness Scale for Primary School Students (ii) The Life Skills Development Self-Efficacy Inventory (Primary Form) (iiI) The Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Inventory (Primary Form) To develop psychometrically sound instruments for assessing Chinese primary school students' connectedness to the mother, the father, teachers and peers, their self-efficacy in applying life skills and primary teachers' preceptions of the level of implementation of guidance programs in schools. To examine primary school students' connectedeness to parents and school and their relations to students' academic, personal-social and career life skills development. To examine the extent to which the level of implementation of the guidance program in schools is longitudinally related to students' connectedness to parents and schools and their life skills development beyond the schools' student intake, and the socioeconomic status of the students.
	Target
		About 100 secondary schools are expected to join in the study.

	Phase V (2012 ‒2015)
		Life skills development in junior secondary students: influence of purpose,connectedness and comprehensive guidance programs
	Objectives
	To examine junior secondary school students′ connectedness to school and parents, purpose in life, and their relations to students′ academic, personal- social, and career life skills development; : to examine relationships between level of implementation of guidance programs in schools, junior secondary students′ life skills development, connectedness, purpose in life, and characteristics of students (e.g., socioeconomic status; ability).
	Target
		About 80 secondary schools are expected to join in the study.

	The Project Team
		Dr. Yuen Man-tak, Faculty of Education, HKU Dr. Eadaoin K. P. Hui (2001-2006) Faculty of Education, HKU Prof. Patrick S. Y. Lau Department of Educational Psychology, CUHK Dr. Raymond M. C. Chan Department of Education Studies, HKBU Mr. Thomas K. M. Leung (2001-2006) Ching Chung Hau Po Woon Secondary School Mr. Peter M. K. Shea Educational Psychology Service, The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China International Consultant Professor Norman C. Gysbers Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia Project Coordinator Miss Sherin S. Y. Ke Faculty of Education, HKU Miss Ricci Fong Faculty of Education, HKU

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Address: The Life Skills Development Project, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, HK.
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