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Editor’s Remark 

N 2016, the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hop-

kins University, led by Professor Robert Slavin, kicked off an e-newsletter 

called Best Evidence in Brief (BEiB) which presents the latest empirical stud-

ies in education from the world’s top academic journals. Today this effort 

expands to the UK, Hong Kong, and Spain, including the Institute for Effec-

tive in Education of the University of York and the Centre for University and 

School Partnership Faculty of Education of the Chinese University of Hong 

Kong, and the La Caixa Foundation. Currently the majority of the selected 

studies in BEiB are from English-speaking countries. In 2018, the Interna-

tional Research Center for Educational Development and Evaluation at Nan-

jing Normal University joined the BEiB family to further promote evidence-

based reform in education in the Chinese speaking region. One of the main 

focuses of the BEiB in China is evidence-based research studies published in 

Chinese educational academic journals since its launched, the Chinese BEiB 

has been well-received by the Chinese educational communities. 

During the past 40 years, reform and development in China have under-

gone earth-shaking changes, including the extensive use of rigorous research 

methods in research. An increasing number of researchers have applied so-

phisticated research methods to explore the link between theories and educa-

tional reform, and dialectical thinking and scientific thinking. With the ex-

changes in educational circles from home and abroad, more and more re-

searchers have learned the latest educational methods from Europe and North 

America. Many young researchers, who have the overseas training, are fa-

miliar to those concepts, including research samples, research hypotheses, re-

search variables, effect sizes, causal relationships, and related relationships. 

These are the days that Chinese educational academic journals should pay at-

tention to both evidence-based reforms and experimental research results in 

education. Happily, the proportion of empirical research studies published in 

Chinese education-related journals is growing. 

In order to introduce the achievements of China’s educational research, 

especially the results of Chinese empirical researches, to the world’s educa-

tional research peers, our team at Nanjing Normal University partnered with 

Insights Publisher in the United States to establish the journal of Best Evi-

dence of Chinese Education so that countries around the world can fully un-

derstand the present situation of China’s educational research. The journal’s 

founding has been strongly supported by world-class educational empirical 

research experts. Professor Robert Slavin, a world-famous scholar from 

Johns Hopkins University, has been invited to be the chair of the editorial 

board. Many professors from world-renowned universities serve as editors of 

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journals. Professor Alan Cheung of The Chinese University of Hong Kong is 

the editor-in-chief of the journal. We believe that with the support of so 

many world-renowned scholars, Best Evidence of Chinese Education will be-

come a valued contributor to the field of reporting educational empirical re-

search. 

Best Evidence of Chinese Education focuses on evidence-based re-

searches concerning China’s education reform and development. Its content 

is drawn mainly from the Best Evidence in Brief newsletter in China. Any 

manuscript selected by an expert review can be translated into English for 

full-text publication or abstract publication. With the efforts of scholars and 

editorial team of Best Evidence in Brief, our journal will contribute to the in-

troduction of educational research results in China and the diversification of 

world education research. 

Correspondence to:  

Alan Cheung 

Editor-in-Chief 
Best Evidence of Chinese Education 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Email: eif.bece@basehq.org 
 

Jijun Yao 

Executive Editor-in-Chief 
Best Evidence of Chinese Education 

Nanjing Normal University 

E-mail: eif.bece@basehq.org. 
 

Conflict of Interests: None. 

Doi: 10.15354/bece.19.ed002 

 

 


