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Cheng, Shu-Chen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Lai, Chiu-Lin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The present study aims to incorporate a group leadership promotion approach into collaborative learning tasks in the hope of developing students' creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, we recruited 59 cross-professional students from a university in northern Taiwan, and…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Leadership, Cooperative Learning, Thinking Skills
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Chen, I-Chun Julie – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2020
Literature circles [LC] are student-centered discussion groups that use various roles to make reading meaningful, comprehensible and enjoyable. The current research investigated the questioning effects and students' perceptions of integrating EFL [English-as-a-foreign-language] literature circles through student-led Facebook Groups. Findings…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, Student Attitudes
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Chang, Shu-Nu; Chiu, Mei-Hung – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The purpose of this study is to explore how Lakatos' scientific research programmes might serve as a theoretical framework for representing and evaluating informal argumentation about socio-scientific issues. Seventy undergraduate science and non-science majors were asked to make written arguments about four socio-scientific issues. Our analysis…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Scientific Research, Research Methodology, Majors (Students)
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Yang, Ya-Ting C. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2008
This study was designed to investigate the effects of teaching critical thinking skills (CTS) in a large class through asynchronous discussion forums (ADFs) with the facilitation of teaching assistants. A pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design with a comparison group was employed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Teleconferencing
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Yang, Ya-Ting C.; Chou, Heng-An – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate (1) the relationship between critical thinking skills (CTS) and critical thinking dispositions (CTD), and (2) the effectiveness of different levels of instructional strategy (asynchronous online discussions (AODs), CTS instruction via AODs, and CTS instruction with CTD cultivation via AODs) in improving…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Quasiexperimental Design, Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Crawford, Margaret, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2006
For the twenty-ninth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Professional Associations, Educational Technology, Teacher Educators
Huang, Su-Yueh – 1996
Observation of 16 university students of writing in English as a Second Language in Taiwan focused on the nature of interactions during three peer response sessions and one consensus exercise. It examined the kinds of comments made by a writing group in responding to peer writing and the characteristics of the verbal interaction in a consensus…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis