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Chin, Christine; Chia, Li-Gek – Science Education, 2006
This case study involved year 9 students carrying out project work in biology via problem-based learning. The purpose of the study was to (a) find out how students approach and work through ill-structured problems, (b) identify some issues and challenges related to the use of such problems, and (c) offer some practical suggestions on the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Investigations, Biology, Problem Based Learning
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Lim, Tock Keng – Intelligence, 1988
Heim's AH4 Test of General Intelligence, Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices, and two Piagetian formal operations tests (Shayer's Science Reasoning Tasks and Arlin's Test of Formal Reasoning) were administered to 459 15-year-olds attending Secondary three (grade nine) in Singapore. A hierarchical factor structure was found underlying all of…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Formal Operations, Grade 9, High School Freshmen
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Poole, Millicent E.; Cooney, George H. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1987
Using an event-listing approach, this study examined the personal and societal future orientations of 15-year-old adolescents in Singapore and Sydney. Three aspects were examined: content, affect, and time span. (Author/JAZ)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
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Lim, Kenneth Y. T.; Wang, Jason Y. Z. – Educational Media International, 2005
This project describes the trialling of a new form of cooperative learning strategy, in the form of a game known as "EcoRangers". "EcoRangers" is a multi-player game designed to run on mobile phones, written specifically for education. "EcoRangers" is one of the first, if not the world's first, instances of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Teaching Methods, Educational Games
Lee, Kam Wah Lucille; Yap, Kueh Chin; Goh, Ngoh Khang; Chia, Lian-Sai; Tang, Woh Un – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2004
This study examines the effects of teaching Linkage and Problem Translating Skills on students' problem-solving performance and their learning of the five cognitive variables namely, Concept Relatedness, Idea Association, Problem Translating Skill, Non-Specific but Relevant Knowledge and Specific Knowledge. Seventy three Grade 9 (Secondary 3)…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Chemistry, Problem Solving, Program Effectiveness
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Alexander, Patricia A.; Murphy, P. Karen; Guan, Joseph – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1998
Examines the learning and study strategies of 9th grade female students from Singapore. Compares the resulting profiles to those of U.S. students of similar age and cross-ability levels as well as comparing their expressed views on the nature of knowledge. Discusses the findings in detail. (CMK)
Descriptors: Ability, Comparative Analysis, Epistemology, Females
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Lian, Chua Siew; Wong, Angela F. L.; Der-Thanq, Victor Chen – Issues in Educational Research, 2006
The Chinese Language Classroom Environment Inventory (CLCEI) is a bilingual instrument developed for use in measuring students' and teachers' perceptions toward their Chinese Language classroom learning environments in Singapore secondary schools. The English version of the CLCEI was customised from the English version of the "What is…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Student Attitudes, Validity, Factor Structure
Lim, Tock Keng – 1993
Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to test first- and second-order factor models on cognitive abilities and their invariance across male and female samples. Subjects were a stratified random sample of 234 male and 225 female 15-year-old students in Singapore attending Secondary 3 (the equivalent of grade 9). Four first-order factors were found…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Developmental Stages, Factor Structure, Females
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Hung, David; Tan, Seng Chee; Cheung, Wing Sum; Hu, Chun – Educational Technology & Society, 2004
In this paper, we suggest that case-based resources, which are used for assisting cognition during problem solving, can be structured around the work of narratives in social cultural psychology. Theories and other research methods have proposed structures within narratives and stories which may be useful to the design of case-based resources.…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Problem Solving, Story Telling, Citizenship Education
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