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Lin, Tzung-Jin; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate two survey instruments to evaluate high school students' scientific epistemic beliefs and goal orientations in learning science. The initial relationships between the sampled students' scientific epistemic beliefs and goal orientations in learning science were also investigated. A final valid…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Student Surveys, High School Students, Epistemology
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Chai, Ching Sing; Deng, Feng; Tsai, Pei-Shan; Koh, Joyce Hwee; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2015
This study attempts to design a survey to assess students' perceptions of twenty-first-century learning practices in their classrooms and the resulting knowledge creation self-efficacy among the students. In addition, it also explores the relationships among the various dimensions of twenty-first-century learning practices. Four hundred and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling; Chai, Ching Sing; Hong, Huang-Yao; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This study investigates 201 Singaporean teachers' perceptions of their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), lesson design practices, and design dispositions through a survey instrument. Investigation of these constructs reveal important variables influencing teachers' perceptions of TPACK which have not yet been explored. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Lin, Tzung-Jin; Goh, Amos Yoong Shin; Chai, Ching Sing; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2013
Background and Purpose: Research in nature of science (NOS) among Asia-Pacific countries such as Singapore is arguably scarce. This study aimed to survey Singaporean secondary school students' views of NOS with a newly developed instrument named Students' Views of Nature of Science (SVNOS), which included various key aspects of NOS that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8, Student Attitudes
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Lin, Chia-Ching; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The main purpose of this study was to examine the structural relationships between scientific epistemological views (SEVs) and information commitments (ICs) of high school students in Taiwan. Data were collected from 486 Taiwanese high school students via two self-reporting instruments: one was the SEV questionnaire, including five scales for…
Descriptors: High School Students, Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology, Student Attitudes