Teaching Practices: A Cluster Analysis of Students in Hong Kong

This paper continues to report the findings in the survey study of Hong Kong university student expectations of classroom teaching practices in developing and presenting course information. 622 usable questionnaires were analyzed through Cluster Analysis in addition to Principal Component extraction method and Varimax rotationmethod. Three Clusters are identified within the respondents in the study and subsequently named as Traditional Teaching Group, Student ActivityGroup, and All Low Group. These three groups were to be used in examining Hong Kong Students’ characteristics such as age group, year of study etc.