School-Based Curriculum in China

CUI Yunhuo has a PhD in Education, and is a professor and Director of the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction of East China Normal University. He is also member of the National Commission of Curriculum Reform of Basic Education in China, member of the National Commission of Teacher Training, and Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Educational Society. He has published over 100 papers and books on effective teaching, curriculum evaluation, school-based curriculum development in China and school-oriented teacher professional development model curriculum studies. He won the first and second prize National Teaching Achievement Award for Basic Education. He is a leading curriculum expert, who has shaped the two major national curriculum reforms and the curriculum reform of national teacher education in China. Currently he is leading a National Breakthrough Project on philosophy and social sciences named 'Monitoring the Quality of School Curriculum Implementation in China'. LEI Hao has a PhD in Education (East China Normal University-Purdue University Joint program supported by the National Overseas Fund), and is an associate researcher at the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction of East China Normal University. His research interests involve curriculum and instruction evaluation, teacher professional development, student learning and development. He has published more than 20 academic papers in SSCI and CSSCI journals. Currently he is a reviewer for Psychological Reports and Global Education. ZHOU Wenye has a PhD in Education (East China Normal University-University of Wisconsin-Madison Joint program supported by the National Overseas Fund), and is Associate Director of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at East China Normal University, and associate professor at the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction of East China. She is a visiting scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Education from December 2016 to January 2018. Her research focuses on curriculum development and evaluation, classroom assessment, performance assessment, and teacher education. She is PI in two national research projects: 'Key Competencies-based school curriculum development' and 'Student Performance Assessment'. She has published over 40 academic papers and books, including Theories and Techniques of Performance Assessment in School.