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    The Impact of the “Double Reduction” Policy on the Participation and Expenditure of Students’ Families on Off-campus Tutoring
    Xiaodong Pang, Haiping Xue, Fengqiu Xiao
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences)    2025, 43 (1): 17-36.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.01.002
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    The “Double Reduction” policy proposes the goal of “reducing the burden of off-campus tutoring expenditures on the families of students in the compulsory education stage.” However, there is currently a lack of research to evaluate the degree of achievement of this policy goal. This study uses a large sample survey data of families of students in the compulsory education stage sampled nationwide, applying the difference-in-differences model (DID) to analyze the impact of the “Double Reduction” policy on the participation and expenditure of students’ families on off-campus tutoring. The study found that (1) the “Double Reduction” policy has significantly reduced the participation and expenditure of students’ families on “disciplinary” off-campus tutoring. The effect remain robust after applied PSM-DID model. (2) the “Double Reduction” policy has a significant reduction effect on student families’ participation in various “disciplinary” off-campus tutoring in “mid-semester, winter and summer vacations”, “online and offline”. The conclusion remain robust after applied PSM-DID model. (3) The “Double Reduction” policy has a significantly increasing effect on the participation and expenditure of students’ families in “non-disciplinary” off-campus tutoring, and the findings does not pass the PSM-DID robustness test. (4) Heterogeneity analysis found that the “double reduction” policy significantly reduced the participation and expenditure of “disciplinary” off-campus tutoring for families of students with middle and low socioeconomic backgrounds, but had no significant impact on families of students with high socioeconomic backgrounds. The research findings of this article provide evidence that the “Double Reduction” policy goal has been achieved. The government should strengthen the supervision of “disciplinary” off-campus tutoring, further strengthen the supervision of “non-disciplinary” off-campus tutoring, intensify efforts to manage the “invisible variation” problem of “non-disciplinary” off-campus tutoring.

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    Learn to Question: Study on the Pattern of Undergraduates-GAI Collaborative Learning
    Shanyun He, Yan Shen
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (2): 34-48.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.02.004
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    The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence(GAI) represented by ChatGPT has challenged the traditional learning. How students learn through GAI tends to be an urgent problem to be explored in the current education and teaching reform. This research analyses the dialogues in class between undergraduate and GAI by coding discourse types, questioning levels, questioning strategies and students’ self report to explore the learning model of human-artificial intelligence collaboration. It is found that in student-GAI dialogues dominated by students, there are more single round conversations and less continuous discussions around a topic. The main types of students’ discourse are initial questioning, extended questioning and rephrasing questioning, while the evaluation and continuing instruction discourses are less. What’s more, students’cognitive level of questioning is low, focusing on knowledge level questioning and comprehension level questioning. The using of questioning strategies is unfamiliar and students seldom use role questioning, material questioning and scheme questioning. In addition, it is discovered that different task stages and different experience both lead to different conversation situation between students and GAI. With the development of task solving, there are more frequent and sustained dialogues, along with the deeper cognitive level and more proficient using of questioning strategies. Meanwhile, students with more experience in using GAI generate more dialogues with high cognitive level. In student-GAI dialogues representing different characteristics, though there are different opinions towards using GAI in class teaching, most of the students hold a positive attitude. In students’ perception, GAI has the advantage in generating responses, furnishing valuable information, handling various types of tasks and fostering the development of student abilities, thereby assisting students in learning. But at the same time, GAI faces challenges related to technical limitations, raising concerns about student development, learning assessment, and overall educational ecosystem. According to the findings of the research, our study provides effective suggestions for further introducing GAI into classroom teaching from three aspects: providing question guidance, enriching question scenes and strengthening reflection of GAI response.

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    Can Growth Mindset be Effectively Cultivated in adolescents? A three-year Intervention and Follow-up Study Based on a Rural School in China
    Junfeng Zhang, Ruxian Yun
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (4): 53-69.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.04.006
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    Cultivating growth mindset is an important strategy for the International Economic Cooperation and Development Organization to enhance the core competencies of adolescents. However, recent empirical studies have weakened or even reversed the positive driving force of growth mindset cultivation, and there is a lack of empirical evidence from East Asia. Addressing the debate of effectiveness of growth mindset intervention and its cross-cultural applicability, this study designed and implemented culturally adapted growth mindset intervention program to a randomized trial and three-year follow-up study at a rural primary school in the Yangtze River Delta region from 2021 to 2024, and used the Difference in Difference method to evaluate the intervention effect. The study found that the intervention program significantly improved the growth mindset level of rural students and had a long-term effect. The effect was more significant for younger students or those with lower initial mindset levels. Besides, the growth mindset enhancement brought about by the intervention effectively improved the students’ learning behavior, including suppressing negative learning motivation, weakening ability-based attribution, improving process-based peer feedback, and strengthening effort-based attribution. Accordingly, schools, families, and society should collaborate closely to jointly create a growth-oriented educational environment, strengthen growing educational principles, equip disadvantaged students with growth mindset as early and as sustained as possible, and bridge academic gaps while promoting educational equity through the development of psychological capital.

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    From Single-agent to Multi-agent: Motivational Learning Activities Design and Empirical Study Supported by LLM-based Agents
    Changqin Huang, Yihua Zhong, Xizhe Wang, Zhongmei Han, Tongquan Wei
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (5): 44-56.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.05.004
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    The continuous advancements in large language models (LLMs) and agent technologies have made LLM-based agents a promising new tool for enhancing the quality and efficiency of teaching and learning in the educational domain. Based on the functional positioning of LLM-based agents, single-agent systems are capable of supporting various teaching and learning tasks, such as content generation, intelligent feedback, and assessment. However, due to the homogeneous nature of their interaction characteristics and functional attributes, single-agent systems face limitations in promoting deeper cognitive development. In contrast, multi-agent systems can simulate various educational roles, enhancing the diversity and depth of learning interactions and thereby providing more personalized and profound learning experiences. Considering that the application of agents in the learning process primarily relies on learners’ initiative, this study based on the ARCS model designed motivational learning activities for both single-agent and multi-agent systems to ensure the effective implementation of learning activities and conducted a quasi-experimental study in the context of English reading. The experimental results reveal that motivational learning activities supported by multi-agent systems significantly outperform single-agent systems in improving students’ performance in reasoning, evaluation, and application tasks. Furthermore, multi-agent systems exhibit stronger motivational effects and effectively promote deeper cognitive development, particularly in abstraction and generalization skills. The study underscores the value of multi-agent systems in supporting deeper learning and provides insights for further exploration of their applications in education.

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    Does Classroom Assessment Promote Deeper Learning among Students? Analysis Based on 16,758 Data from Primary and Secondary Schools in a County
    Donghui Zheng, Shengnan Ye
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (2): 49-65.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.02.005
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    Clarifying the impact of classroom assessment on deeper learning is helpful to explore the direction of student assessment reform and learning style reform in the new era. Through literature review, this article constructs a theoretical framework for classroom assessment that promotes deeper learning, highlighting the integration, guidance, and ethics of classroom assessment. According to the theoretical framework, self-developed “Classroom Assessment Behavior Questionnaire Based on Student Perspective” and “Deeper Learning Questionnaire for Primary and Secondary School Students”. A sampling survey was conducted on 16,758 primary and secondary school students in a county, which is reflected in three aspects. One is that classroom assessment has a significant positive effect on deeper learning, another is that the higher the student’s achievements, the more significant positive effect of classroom assessment on deeper learning, and the third is that grade, urban-rural, and family learning environments significantly affect the effect of classroom assessment on deeper learning. This has important implications for understanding the relationship between classroom assessment and deeper learning. Firstly, embrace the value of classroom assessment in promoting deeper learning, and highlight the integrity and uniqueness of classroom assessment. Secondly, pay attention to the significance of students as the subject of classroom assessment to the change of learning style, and emphasizes the importance of assessment as a deeper learning style. Thirdly, examine the internal differences of deeper learning and different influences of classroom assessment factors, and promote practice of teaching-learning-assessment alignment on deeper learning. Finally, pay attention to the impact of student characteristics on promoting deeper learning through classroom assessment, and focus on the adaptability and ethics of classroom assessment.

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    Paradigm Shifts in Education: An Ecological Analysis
    Yong Zhao, Ruojun Zhong
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (3): 12-23.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.03.002
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    The purpose of this article is to analyze educational changes, in particular transformational changes, and suggest a new approach to shifting the paradigm in education using an ecological conceptual framework. Paradigm shift can happen in schools, but it cannot be imposed by systems, and systems typically are unable to propose transformational changes. Such changes should happen within schools, but not affecting the entire school. Thus a “school within a school” approach is proposed with some examples. The small change could affect entire systems from the perspective of panachy theory. This article brings a fresh perspective on making the much needed transformational changes possible in schools. AI partnership, personalized learning, student autonomy and self-determination, self-directed learning are all fascinating and hopeful ideas that could bring the best education possible for all students. But implementing these would demand a paradigm shift in schools. Schools are the most resilient social entities, but they are also the easiest to change organizations. For over 200 years, the essence of schooling has not changed, but there have been significant changes in curriculum, textbooks, testing, and pedagogy. Today, we need schools to operate with a different education paradigm to enable students to have more autonomy and control of their learning in order to survive and thrive in the uncertain age of Artificial Intelligence. It seems apparent that the school system has successfully resisted paradigm shifts or transformational changes.

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    An Analysis of Basic Education System Reform from the Perspective of Strengthening Education
    Yu Xiao, Tianyu Jin, Huiqin Liu
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (5): 86-95.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.05.007
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    Building an education powerhouse lies in basic education. Through a longitudinal historical review and cross-national comparisons, this study finds that China’s basic education system has evolved over the past century, following a trajectory from imitation to exploration and ultimately to stabilization. International comparisons indicate that the development trends in basic education systems worldwide include shortening the duration of primary education, extending the period of compulsory education, strengthening the articulation between educational stages, adopting multi-track systems, increasing flexibility in education system, and incorporating pre-vocational training. Currently, China’s education system still faces issues such as excessive segmentation of educational stages, the incomplete alignment of compulsory education with the basic education system, and insufficient articulation between educational stages. To address these challenges, this study suggests that the reform of the basic education system should adhere to principles that align with students’ physical and mental development, fulfill the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, serve the strategic needs of the nation, and adapt to the advancements of the artificial intelligence era. As a reform proposal, the study advocates for the adoption of a “5+5(+2)” or “10(+2)” education system. This model reduces the current twelve-year duration of basic education to ten years, extends the nine-year compulsory education period to cover the entire basic education system, and incorporates a two-year non-compulsory transition period to guide students in exploring their future careers. This approach aims to enhance educational efficiency and quality, thereby meeting societal demands for high-caliber talent.

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    How Siblings Influence Adolescents’ Cognitive Abilities and Subjective Well-being?
    Wenyan Liang, Qian He
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences)    2025, 43 (1): 81-95.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.01.006
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    This paper presents a comprehensive theoretical exploration of the relationship between sibling number and adolescent development, and utilizes data from the 2010—2018 Chinese Family Panel Survey (CFPS) to provide micro-level evidence for identifying the impact of siblings on adolescents’ cognitive ability and subjective well-being. The results indicate that having a sibling has a positive effect on adolescents’ subjective well-being, which increases with age and remains stable in adulthood. Having siblings may have a negative effect on adolescents’ cognitive ability in mathematics, but this effect is mainly seen in the young age sample and gradually disappears with the increase of grades and age. This paper provides information to support more effective cost-benefit analyses when parents make fertility decisions, as well as policy implications for alleviating parenting anxiety, improving fertility policies, and promoting sustainable population development.

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    The Public Signal of We Media and the College Entrance Examination Will-Decision Application: A Study Based on “Zhang Xuefeng Journalism Event”
    Ziying Fan, Xinyi Zhao, Jiayu Wei
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (3): 58-77.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.03.006
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    The National College Entrance Exam will-decision application is a key part of the higher education system, and it is also a major decision that affects every candidate, and the rational decision of individuals depends on the acquisition of real information. In this paper, we studied the impact of information dissemination on the National College Entrance Exam will-decision application in the era of “We Media”. We manually collected and organized the admission data of 90 “Double World-Class” colleges and universities in each province and each major from 2019 to 2023, and converted them into comparable admission ranks by matching a one-point-one-paragraph table and then systematically evaluate the admission rank. Based on the “Zhang Xuefeng journalism major review event” in 2023, we systematically assessed the public signaling effect of We Media. Based on the scientific and detailed quantitative analysis, we found that, first, the event caused the lowest admission rank in journalism and communication to drop by 15% on average, and this situation showed great differentiation in each province. For example, the decline in Shandong province is more than 30% and less than 5% in Fujian province. Second, the effect depends on the concentration of news dissemination in the We Media and the more short-video users in the region, the greater the impact. Finally, the effect shows an obvious asymmetry. The “non-recommended” majors have a significant decline in the acceptance rank, while the “recommended” majors have little significant increase. “Recommended” majors do not rise significantly, indicating that the main role played by public information in the National College Entrance Exam will-decision application is risk aversion. Therefore, the management of public figures' statements related to college entrance exam will-decision application should be strengthened. A differentiated information supervision strategy should be implemented according to regions, and the market competition of college entrance exam will-decision application information should be promoted to diversify it, in order to scientifically guide students in filling out their college entrance exam will-decision application.

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    Integration of Knowledge Seeking, Self-perfection, and Pursuit of Career Development: Chinese Students’ Learning Characteristics from an International and Comparative Perspective
    Huafeng Zhang, Jinghuan Shi, Fei Guo
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (2): 19-33.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.02.003
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    Moving beyond entrenched negative stereotypes and Western-centric educational theories, this study offers a nuanced understanding of Chinese students’ learning approaches through an international comparative lens. This approach is essential for developing a contextualized theory of student learning and serves as a cornerstone for enhancing talent development and educational practices. A comprehensive analysis of international research on Chinese learners reveals distinct learning characteristics: an integrated cognitive strategy facilitating knowledge reproduction, motivation deeply rooted in social connections and instrumental tools, purposeful and context-driven academic engagement, and learning philosophies imbued with indigenous virtues. These findings suggest that Chinese students’ educational experiences encompass not only cognitive processes but also embody a holistic ‘great learning’ ethos that integrates knowledge seeking, self-perfection, and pursuit of career development. To foster a meaningful evolution in student learning, educational interventions must transcend the confines of mere internal reforms within schools and engage with broader socio-educational reform that would change the learning characteristics of self-perfection and pursuit of career development.

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    Digital Textbooks or Paper Textbooks, Which is More Conducive to Students’ Learning?
    Hao Lei, Chunming Yang
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences)    2024, 42 (12): 99-115.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.12.005
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    With the development of information technology, digital textbooks have become an important form of teaching materials. However, there is still a debate about which is more beneficial to students’ learning when using digital textbooks or paper textbooks. To this end, this study conducted a meta-analysis of 36 experimental and quasi-experimental studies. The results show that compared with the use of paper textbooks, digital textbooks are more conducive to students’ academic achievement (g=0.218). In addition, in the context of collectivism culture, digital textbooks have a greater impact on the improvement of students’ academic achievement; There is an inverted U-shaped relationship between the intervention duration and the impact of digital textbooks on students’ academic achievement. When the intervention duration is between 12 and 24 weeks, the effect is the largest. Compared with other subjects, digital textbooks have the most obvious positive effect on students’ social studies. Grade type can also regulate the impact of digital textbooks on students’ academic achievement, that is, the more timely test results have a more significant impact. The prediction effect of digital textbooks on students’ academic achievement is not affected by gender, grade, publication year and experiment type.The digital age needs to strengthen technological innovation to provide a better foundation for the teaching and use of digital textbooks, and improve teachers’ digital literacy and better support the learning promotion function of digital textbooks. Also, it's necessary to, based on the periodicity rule of digital textbook promoting learning, create activities to promote students’ learning, improve students’ digital literacy, and give full play to the function of digital textbooks to improve the learning outcomes.

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    Dialogue with Reggio Emilia: The Hundred Languages of Children
    Jianqin Yin, Claudia Judic (Claudia Giudici)
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (2): 119-126.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.02.010
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    While the Chinese “living education” theory has remained enduring vitality over a century of tempering and experimenting, as a vibrant early education approach, the Reggio Emilia Approach from Italy has been adopted in many countries and regions. This article documents a dialogue between its author and Claudia Judic, president of Reggio Children, on several core issues in preschool education, such as environment as a third teacher, social interactions, the teacher’s role, documentation, and artistic work. Full understanding and consensus were reached in the dialogue. President Giudici proposed the triple dimension of Reggio’s environment creation, the endogenous educational beliefs of teachers, the essence and function of documentation, and the art studio as a spatial metaphor. She also pointed out that “creativity” and “situationality” are the basic elements and key characteristics of the Reggio Emilia Approach.

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    What Are Discipline Practices: Based on the Perspective of Ontology
    Daoyu Yang
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences)    2024, 42 (12): 73-81.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.12.003
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    Discipline practices are the result of the specialization of the activities of understanding and reforming the world. As a new paradigm of talent cultivation in the era of core competencies, original connotations of disciplinary practices have three dimensions: behavior, cognition and reflection. In the behavioral dimension, discipline practice points to the empirical investigation, which begins with the presentation of real questions based on the real world, with objective facts as the object of experience, with hands-on operations as the basic method, with the direct aim of obtaining first-hand empirical data, and with the basic tenet of service theory construction and engineering design. In the thinking dimension, discipline practice from sciences points to the construction of theoretical thinking aimed at revealing and representing the world as it really is, and its engineering level points to the construction of engineering thinking aimed at designing of transforming the world. In the reflective dimension, discipline practice points to the practice consciousness of the practitioner, who takes his own practice behavior and thought as the object to reflect on himself, improve himself, and motivate himself. It is the organic unity of self-clarity of determining self-practice state, self-criticism of improving self-practice quality, and self-encouragement of motivating self-practice forward.

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    Academic and Vocational Streaming in High School Education: Misunderstandings, Facts and Visions
    Zhilei Tian, Yi Xue, Li Yin
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (2): 105-118.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.02.009
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    In recent years, due to widespread misunderstandings regarding the academic and vocational streaming, educational anxiety has continued to grow and spread in society. Based on a factual and characteristic description of the academic and vocational streaming, this article reexamines the societal criticisms of this streaming. Over the past two decades, the academic to vocational education ratio in China’s senior high school education has experienced roller-coaster-like fluctuations but has consistently remained greater than 1∶1. Currently, at least sixty to seventy percent of students attend regular high schools, with some provinces nearing eighty percent. Micro-level data reveals that while family background plays a significant role in the streaming, academic performance is the predominant factor. Families in major cities and those with multiple children face greater pressures within this streaming, and boys tend to underperform compared to girls. Subsequently, this article provides minority supportive and majority contradictory evidence surrounding mainstream criticisms of the academic and vocational streaming. Finally, grounded in empirical analysis of this streaming, the article explores potential pathways for future harmonization of academic and vocational education in China.

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    Physical Education Entrance Exam for High School and College:Scientific Inquiry and Ethical Dilemma
    Wen Xiong
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (3): 78-94.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.03.007
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    At present, the reform orientation (improving scores in the PE senior middle school entrance exam and incorporating PE into the college entrance exam) of PE entrance exam presents a serious theoretical deviation and ethical dilemma, which have a wide and deep influence, not only concerning the major and basic theoretical proposition of school PE in China, but also involving the deconstruction of education-talent evaluation, and even impacting on the social value system. However, there is still a lack of attention to this issue in the fields of PE, education and philosophy-ethics. From the perspective of scientific rationality and value rationality, this paper reflects on the problems related to the reform orientation of PE entrance exam. It argues that, first, the reform of PE entrance exam has been scientifically misplaced, both internally and externally, based on the external reference of the “cultural” subjects and internal examination of evaluative validity of the PE entrance exam. Externally, PE is mainly positioned as individual basic-safeguarding demands and individual-self-development, while “culture” subjects are related to improving-developmental demand and social utility-basic development, and accordingly the evaluation evaluation differentiation and rigidity of these subjects is different.Internally, PE exams assess mainly non essential, specialized athletic ability, making it difficult to characterize “PE” and “health”. Second, the reform of PE entrance exam faces macro and micro ethical dilemmas, which are involving the crisis of education-social value and the fairness of individual-operation issues, rooted in the inherent discord between athletic ability and “culture” subjects. Third, the reform of exam should clarify the misinterpretation of students’ all-round development and “sports development”, prevent the misuse of different evaluation systems, and maintain tension between long-term strategies and expediency. The following issues should be considered: whether sports development (right), as a right mainly pointing to self-development, should be made mandatory for further education; whether PE is a compulsory subject in overseas entrance exams; whether factors such as health and athletic ability associated with PE exams can be used as limiting or differentiating factors of the right to education; if the reform of PE entrance exam continues for reasons of expediency, will it be a level exam, or a differentiated exam, and if it can be generalized to other education stages.

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    Bringing Back “Cultures”: Revisiting the Concept of Cultural Capital in Chinese Education Research
    Xiaoxuan Li
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (3): 47-57.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.03.005
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    The study of cultural capital in China’s education sector has a long history. Based on Bourdieu’s theories, which have been adapted to the Chinese educational context, a great deal of research has been conducted to expand the mediating role, group differences, and conceptual discernment of cultural capital through quantitative, qualitative, and discursive research methodologies. An examination of Bourdieu’s research lineage reveals that his understanding and use of culture is reflected in the process of early fieldwork, mid-term theoretical construction and late practical reflection. This understanding is not limited to the study of elegant cultural behaviours and complex cultural archives, but also encompasses a kind of gaze on the overall daily life. From the point of view of the “cultural” connotation of cultural capital, we still need to explore the mechanism of cultural capital that truly touches the spiritual core of Chinese culture beyond the absolute measurement of culture and the description of material cultural entities.

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    The Impact of Reduction in Disciplinary Off-campus Tutoring Institutions on Students’ Time in School: An Evaluation Study Based on the “Double Reduction” Policy
    Wei Lu, Yi Wei
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences)    2025, 43 (1): 37-48.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.01.003
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    The rectification of off-campus tutoring institutions is one of the important aspects of the “Double Reduction” reform. This article empirically examines the impact of the reduction in disciplinary off-campus tutoring institutions on students’ time spent in school. Using data from the shop information of disciplinary tutoring institutions on Dianping.com, combined with geographic coding and search POI application interface from Gaode Map, as well as a nationwide survey on the usage of information technology in primary and secondary education, the study empirically tests the effects. The research findings are as follows. (1) During the “Double Reduction” period, the nationwide reduction rate of disciplinary off-campus tutoring institutions was approximately 88%. (2) The higher the reduction level of disciplinary off-campus tutoring institutions around schools, the more time students spend in school daily, indicating a certain degree of substitution between in-school and off-campus education. This substitution effect is more pronounced among disadvantaged groups. While this phenomenon is not significant in the first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, it can be observed in many other second and third-tier cities. (3) The higher the reduction level of disciplinary off-campus tutoring institutions around schools, the higher the probability of students completing homework in school, while the probability of completing homework in off-campus tutoring institutions is lower. However, the reduction of tutoring institutions does not affect the total time students spend on homework.

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    Dynamic Evolution and Ecosystem Modeling of Chinese Children’s Moral Emotional Development: Based on Three Rounds of Large-scale Empirical Surveys
    Caiping Sun, Dandan Ge
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences)    2025, 43 (1): 96-112.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.01.007
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    Moral emotion is a motivating factor for character realizations, which is a key point to examine the unity of children’s cognition and behavior. Based on a large-scale overall dynamic dataset on the moral development of Chinese children in 2016, 2019, and 2022 (sample sizes: 77,953, 77,367, and 79,914), using Sharp Index decomposition and logistic regression analysis, we have got the the following findings. Firstly, the types of Chinese children's moral emotion development are not balanced, with insufficient expression of sympathy. Secondly, the level of moral emotions initially increases and subsequently declines as age increases. The age of ten is a critical developmental milestone for moral emotions. Thirdly, structural differences in moral emotions among Chinese children exist based on gender and geographical region. Fourthly, there is a unique ecosystem logic by the intensity of the influence of the factors, in descending order of “individual-school-social support-family”. Life satisfaction, people who know the child, and the psychological environment of the school and the family are the high-impact factors. And there are differences in the influence of the different factors on the development of the moral-emotional development of the children of different genders and school segments.From the above findings, it is proposed that the cultivation of moral emotions in Chinese children should pay attention to the developmental imbalance of the types of moral emotions, the differences in the development of the group and the key influencing factors, optimize the ecosystem of children’s moral emotion development, seize the critical period of development, further clarify the focus of education, and enhance the relevance and timeliness.

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    Whether High School Science Education Can Influence Students’ College Entrance Exam Subject Choices in the Context of the New College Entrance Exam Reform: An Empirical Study Based on the STEM Pipeline Theory
    Congbin Guo, Wei Wu, Jing Ren
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (3): 95-109.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.03.008
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    Subject selection for the college entrance examination is one of the core elements of the new college entrance examination reform. Most of the existing studies on subject selection for the college entrance examination focus on individual and family background influences, neglecting the consideration of science education at the school level. Based on the STEM pipeline theory and structural equation modeling, this study, after analyzing the survey data on science education in general secondary schools in seven provinces and cities across China, found that activity courses and science and technology competitions had a facilitating effect on students’ choice of physics combination subjects, while statistical surveys showed a hindering effect; however, the effects of theme class meetings and extracurricular activities on students’ subject choice were not obvious; at the same time, the activity courses had a significant impact on students’ choice of subjects by increasing their knowledge of science-related content, career awareness, and access to resources, thereby facilitating students’ choice of physics subject combinations. Science and technology competitions, on the other hand, increased the likelihood of students choosing physics subject combinations by increasing early exposure and career awareness. In contrast, statistical surveys decreased the likelihood of choosing a physics subject combination by decreasing the level of career awareness and access to resources. Furthermore, the negative impacts of statistical surveys were mainly found in county high schools, while the positive impacts were found for students in urban high schools.

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    Challenges and Reforms in School Stratification Accompanying Key Higher Education Initiatives in China
    Junwen Zhu, Yinqi Ma, Lingzhi Shao
    Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa    2025, 43 (3): 1-11.   DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.03.001
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    Promoting the classification-driven reform of higher education institutions to achieve a transition from stratified to classified development is a critical task for deepening reform and advancing China’s goal of becoming an educational powerhouse. Optimizing the impact of key higher education initiatives on school stratification and addressing their potential negative effects are pressing issues. This study systematically reviews the development history of China’s key higher education initiatives, analyzing their influence on school stratification from dimensions such as resource allocation, concentration of key disciplines, and contributions to enrollment opportunities. The findings reveal that these initiatives have intensified stratification within the higher education system, with institutional structures evolving from a pyramidal hierarchy to a more pronounced stratified model. Key disciplines are increasingly concentrated in a few institutions, and the institutional status conferred by these initiatives often creates a “ceiling effect” for non-selected universities. The stratification is further reinforced by the Matthew Effect in resource flows and evaluation practices that prioritize institutional rank, scale, and rankings over intrinsic quality and contributions. To address these challenges, this study proposes expanding the scope of institutions included in key initiatives, shifting support from discipline-focused to institution-based models, and improving classification evaluation systems centered on institutional types, quality, and societal contributions. These measures aim to alleviate the stratification challenges and promote more balanced development within the higher education system.

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