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Yang, Jie Chi; Quadir, Benazir – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
The great value of applying digital games in language learning has been highlighted. However, there has been a lack of attention paid to the effects of prior knowledge in a contextual game-based language learning environment. To this end, this study developed an MMORPG-based educational game to facilitate English learning, aiming at investigating…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Anxiety, Computer Games, Second Language Learning
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Chin, Chi-Chin; Yang, Wei-Cheng; Tuan, Hsiao-Lin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
This study explored the effects of arguing to learn in a socioscientific context on the fundamental and derived components of reading, writing, and science understanding as integral parts of science literacy. We adopted mixed-methods in which the 1-group pretest-posttest design with supplemental interviews and questionnaires. The pretest evaluated…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Scientific Literacy, Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research
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Lin, Yung-Chi; Yang, Der-Ching; Li, Mao-Neng – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
A web-based two-tier test (WTTT-NS) which combined the advantages of traditional written tests and interviews in assessing number sense was developed and applied to assess students' answers and reasons for the questions. In addition, students' major misconceptions can be detected. A total of 1,248 sixth graders in Taiwan were selected to…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Number Concepts, Numbers, Number Systems
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Yang, Kuay-Keng; Lee, Ling; Hong, Zuway-R; Lin, Huann-shyang – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of the creative inquiry-based science teaching on students' creative science thinking and science inquiry performance. A quasi-experimental design consisting one experimental group (N = 20) and one comparison group (N = 24) with pretest and post-test was conducted. The framework of the…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Science Instruction, Science Education, Convergent Thinking
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Tsai, Chia-Wen; Shen, Pei-Di; Lin, Rong-An – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2015
This study investigated, via quasi-experiments, the effects of student-centered project-based learning with initiation (SPBL with Initiation) on the development of students' computing skills. In this study, 96 elementary school students were selected from four class sections taking a course titled "Digital Storytelling" and were assigned…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Student Centered Learning, Computer Literacy
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Wang, Chien-hwa; Chen, Cheng-ping – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
The major concerns of adaptive testing studies have concentrated on effectiveness and efficiency of the system built for the research experiments. It has been criticised that such general information has fallen short of providing qualitative descriptions regarding learning performance. Takahiro Sato of Japan proposed an analytical diagram called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Feedback (Response)
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Tsai, Chia-Wen; Shen, Pei-Di; Lu, Yu-Jui – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2015
This study investigated, via quasi-experiments, the effects of problem-based learning with flipped classroom (FPBL) on the development of students' learning performance. In this study, 144 elementary school students were selected from sixth-grade sections taking a course titled "Production of Ebook," and were assigned into the following…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework
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Hung, Hui-Chun; Young, Shelley Shwu-Ching; Lin, Chiu-Pin – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015
How to close the achievement gap in the classroom so that no student is left behind becomes one of the most important issues nowadays. This study aims to construct a collaborative and competitive game-based learning environment to improve English proficiencies and reduce the achievement gap for disadvantaged students. The Wireless Crossword…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Cooperative Learning, Competition
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Hung, Hui-Chun; Young, Shelley Shwu-Ching – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2015
This study proposed and implemented a system combining the advantages of both educational games and wireless handheld technology to promote the interactive English learning in the classroom setting. An interactive English vocabulary acquisition board game was designed with the system being implemented on handheld devices. Thirty sixth-grade…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Video Games
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Lin, Shu-Sheng; Mintzes, Joel J. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2010
This article describes an effort to explore and enhance argumentation skills of Taiwanese grade 6 students through instruction in socioscientific issues. An experienced elementary school teacher was given 8 months of personalized instruction on argumentation skills and socioscientific issues, then subsequently implemented a 17-h classroom unit on…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Multiple Regression Analysis, Grade 6, Academic Ability
Min-Hsiung, Chuang; Jeng-Fung, Hung; Quo-Cheng, Sung – Online Submission, 2011
This study aimed to probe into the influence of implementing Web-quest supported science writing instruction on students' science learning and science writing. The subjects were 34 students in one class of grade six in an elementary school in Taiwan. The students participated in the instruction, which lasted for eight weeks. Data collection…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing (Composition), Effect Size, Foreign Countries
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Lin, Chiu-Pin; Shao, Yin-juan; Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Li, Yin-Jen; Niramitranon, Jitti – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
This study aimed to develop a collaborative and manipulative virtual Tangram puzzle to facilitate children to learn geometry in the computer-supported collaborative learning environment with Tablet PCs. In promoting peer interactions and stimulating students' higher-order thinking and creativity toward geometric problem-solving, we designed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving
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Lin, Yu-sien – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2010
The aim of the study was to examine how drama fosters children's everyday creativity, its relationship with creative pedagogy, and what teachers can provide for children's development in creativity in an Asian context. A series of drama lessons were designed and taught to two six-grade (11-12 years old) classes by involving pedagogical strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diaries, Teacher Role, Instructional Innovation
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Huang, Tzu-Hua; Liu, Yuan-Chen; Shiu, Chia-Ya – Computers & Education, 2008
The study focused on the effects of the CAL system constructed via cognitive conflict of decimal numbers for the sixth graders. The purpose of the system is to gauge decimal concepts of students. When students entertain misconceptions or misleading ideas, the system will in accordance with the types of the wrong answer generate appropriate…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Arithmetic, Misconceptions, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Hsin-Yuan – Education Research and Perspectives, 2010
The present study targeted the online reading strategies of upper-elementary and middle school students with and without learning disabilities in the U.S. and in Taiwan. Several aspects of the comprehension process were studied, including: (1) Internet navigation strategies and behaviours, (2) sensitivity to the organisational structure of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Reading Strategies, Search Strategies
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