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Cheng Yong Tan is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) with research expertise in home and school influences on child development. He is ranked among the top 2% most cited scientists worldwide by Stanford/Elsevier since 2023. He has won numerous awards, including Educational Review’s Article of the Year Award 2018 and HKU Research Output Prize 2022 and 2026. His articles, ‘Academic benefits from parental involvement are stratified by parental socioeconomic status: A meta-analysis’ and ‘Typology of habitus in education: Findings from a review of qualitative studies’ have been ranked by SciVal/Scopus as among the top 10 most representative studies published 2020-2026 for parental involvement and Bourdieu's cultural capital theory respectively. He has published in leading journals including Educational Research Review, Educational Psychology Review, and Review of Educational Research.
Why do some students excel while others struggle, despite having access to the same school educational resources? The answer often lies in their socioeconomic status (SES). SES is a complex...
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