Jana Ho
Official Title: Assistant Professor | Programme Coordinator for the Bachelor in Education
Faculty: School of Education
Email: jana.ho@usj.edu.mo
Short Bio
Prof. Jana Ho is an accomplished researcher specializing in the integration of technology in education, with a focus on early childhood learning, gamification, and online assessments for dyslexia. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and a Master's degree in Learning Sciences from the University of Munich. After receiving the Psychology Department Thesis Award from CUHK, she worked as a research associate at Purdue University in the United States before joining USJ. Prof. Ho is committed to advancing teacher development and enhancing pedagogical practices through innovative technological approaches. She is currently a scientific committee member of the special issue in the Journal of International Students -- Rethinking International Education: Leadership, Technology, and Global Citizenship for a Changing World. At the moment, she is supervising postdocs and master's students at USJ on various research projects related to AI literacy.
Publications
1. Ho, J.CS., Reed, D., & McBride, C. (2025). The Effects of Orthography, Phonology, Semantics, and Word Memory on the Reading Comprehension of Children with and without Dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 1-16. (SSCI, Q1, IF = 2.1)
2. HO, J.CS., Cheung S.K., McBride, C., Purpura, D.J., Ng, M.CY. & Ho, A.PL. (2025). Relation between general vocabulary knowledge and early numeracy competence: The mediating role of mathematical language. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 252, 106145. (SSCI, Q1, IF = 1.8)
3. McQuade, M., Pan, D.J., Ho, J.CS., Ong, J., Ng, M.C., Meng, X., McBride, C. (2024). Chinese Students Learning English as a Second Language. Education Sciences, 14(2), 180. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14020180 (ESCI, Q1, IF = 2.5)
4. Ho, J.CS., McBride, C., Lui, K.FH., & Łockiewicz, M. (2023). WordSword – An Efficient Online Word Reading Assessment for Global English. Assessment, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911231194971 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 3.5)
5. Ho, J.CS., McBride, C., & Lui, K.FH., (2023). What Explains Children's Digital Word Reading Performance in L2. Reading and Writing, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-023-10420-8 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 2.0)
6. Tong, C. K. Y., Ho, J. CS., Yang, X., McBride, C., Ng, M. C. Y., & Pan, D. J. (2022). Transfer? Reading, writing, and parental factors in Hong Kong Chinese families across Chinese and English. Reading and Writing, 36, 1997–2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10372-5 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 2.0)
7. Ho, J.CS., Hung, YS. & Kwan, L.YY. (2021). The impact of peer competition and collaboration on gamified learning performance in educational settings: a Meta-analytical study. Education and Information Technologies, 27, 3833–3866. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10770-2 (SSCI, Q1, IF = 4.8)
Selected Conferences:
1. Ho, J.CS. (2025, July 4-6). Anger in Learning -- The Relationships between Teachers’ Aggressive Anger Expressions and Students’ Achievement Goals. [Oral Presentation]. The 9th International Academic Conference on Education (IACEDUCATION), Zurich, Switzerland.
2. Ho, J.CS. (2025, June 23). Empowering Children’s Subjectivity through AI: Designing effective online assessments for learning and reading innovations in dyslexia screening. [Panel Forum Presentation]. The 4th International Symposium on Inclusive Education Development, Wuhan, China.
3. Ho, J.CS. & Kwan, L.YY. (2024, July 21-26). The impact of individual, competitive and collaborative games on different types of knowledge. [Poster Presentation]. The 33rd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic.
