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Epistemic Network Analysis of Students' Drawings to Investigate Their Conceptions of Science Learning with Technology
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Chang, Hsin-Yi; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
The study employed epistemic network analysis (ENA) to investigate students' conceptions of science learning with technology. One-hundred and eleven tenth-grade students were asked to express via drawings their conceptions of experienced and ideal learning of science with technology. Their drawings were coded into 20 elements in seven categories.…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Network Analysis, Freehand Drawing, Student Attitudes
Relationships between Student Scientific Epistemological Beliefs and Perceptions of Constructivist Learning Environments.
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Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Research, 2000
A study of 1,176 Taiwanese 10th graders showed that they tend to perceive their learning environments as less constructivist than they preferred. Those with more constructivist than empiricist beliefs about science felt that environments did not provide sufficient opportunities for social negotiation, integration of prior knowledge, and meaningful…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Environment, Epistemology
The Effects of STS-Oriented Instruction on Female Tenth Graders' Cognitive Structure Outcomes and the Role of Student Scientific Epistemological Beliefs.
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Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Investigates the effects of Science-Technology-Society instruction on a group of Taiwanese female 10th grade students' cognitive structure outcomes. Examines the role of student scientific epistemological beliefs on such effects. (Author/SAH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Epistemology, Females, Foreign Countries