An Investigation on the Academic Burden of Chinese Students Ranging from Primary Schools to Universities Based on a Word Association Test in Guangdong Province

Ruixiang Gao, Tingxin He, Yu Liao, Xiaoqin Liu, Yinqing Fan, Yingting Su, Huang Zuo and Lei Mo
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Ruixiang Gao: Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510631, China
Tingxin He: Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510631, China
Yu Liao: Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510631, China
Xiaoqin Liu: School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Yinqing Fan: Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510631, China
Yingting Su: School of Mathematics (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519080, China
Huang Zuo: Teacher Education and Teacher Development Evaluation Research Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, College of Teacher Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Lei Mo: Philosophy and Social Science Laboratory of Reading and Development in Children and Adolescents (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510631, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: China’s basic education and higher education are currently facing policies aimed at reducing and increasing the academic burden, respectively. In this context, we first review and assess the methods of measuring students’ academic burden and then apply the implicit association test for the first time to the academic burden of Chinese students from primary school to university under a unified framework. The results demonstrates that students’ academic burden increases with the school stage, and thus university students face a greater burden than primary and high school students, and that learning attitude fully mediates the relationship between objective and subjective views of academic burden. These results suggest the three policy approaches of implementing a management system for classifying academic burden, considering how to improve students’ learning quality, and developing their mental health education, thus providing a reference and inspiration for research and practice in the field of academic burden.

Keywords: academic burden; students from primary schools to universities; measurement method; word association test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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