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Ku, Heng-Yu; Sullivan, Howard J. – 2001
This study investigated the effects of personalized instruction on the achievement and attitudes of Taiwanese students on two-step mathematics word problems. A total of 136 fourth graders in a Taiwanese public school participated in the study. Subjects initially completed a Student Survey on which they chose their favorite foods, sports, stores,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Individualized Instruction
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Lin, Pei-Jung; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1990
A total of 30 kindergarten and second, fourth, and sixth grade students from Taiwan and the United States were asked to make category inclusion and typicality judgments for 6 categories. Findings suggested that cultural familiarity with instances plays an important role in the development of category knowledge. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Jones, Nathan B.; Wang, Shun Hwa – 2001
This 3-year study examined a communicative language teaching (CLT) program within a Taiwanese elementary school, investigating whether the program would improve students' English skills, which variables would account for improved English skills, whether participating students would enjoy the program, and implications for teaching English in other…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 4
Tyan, Nay-ching Nancy; Hu, Yi-chain – 1995
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of various translation methods used in imported instructional video programs on Taiwan elementary school students' visual and verbal memory. Following pretesting, 128 fourth grade students from an urban public elementary school in northern Taiwan participated. The students in 4 experimental…
Descriptors: Chinese, Control Groups, Elementary School Students, Experimental Groups
Chen, Jen-Jen – 1995
This study surveyed fourth-grade students (N=677) and teachers (N=489) from China, Taiwan, and the United States regarding their views toward different classroom management strategies in dealing with four kinds of classroom behaviors: (1) causing a disruption by talking to other students; (2) giving a wrong answer to a question; (3) behaving well;…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Elementary School Students
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Clifford, Margaret M.; Chou, Fen-Chang – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
Fourth grade Taiwan students (94 males and 97 females) completed 2 cognitive risk-taking tasks with variable payoff or fixed payoff in a game or test context. Both variable payoff and game context increased the level of academic risk taking. Results are discussed concerning interactions between ability and risk taking. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect
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Cifuentes, Lauren; Murphy, Karen L. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2000
Explains Cultural Connections, a model for implementing constructivist, intercultural distance learning partnerships. Highlights include a theoretical framework; social constructivist pedagogy; intercultural communication; telecommunications; Web pages; and examples of a middle school partnership in Texas, a fourth-grade connection between Texas…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Distance Education, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Countries
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Huang, Hsin-Mei E. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2004
This study aimed to investigate children's performance and perception of problem difficulty in solving everyday mathematical problems with familiar versus unfamiliar contexts. In addition, the ways that children identify the similarities in problem-solving approaches between problem settings and everyday shopping were also examined. Forty-eight…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Active Learning, Grade 4, Familiarity
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
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Clifford, Margaret M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1990
Academic risk taking--the selection of schoollike tasks ranging in difficulty and probability of success--was examined for 602 students in grades 4, 6, and 8 in Taiwan. Results of a self-report measure of tolerance for failure and a risk-taking task are discussed concerning self-enhancement versus self-assessment goals, metacognitive skills, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
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Yu, Fu-Yun – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003
Since past studies showing that competition has negative effects on group process were primarily conducted in traditional classrooms involving face-to-face situations, this study extends past research by investigating whether the negative effects associated with face-to-face team competition can be mitigated with the support of networking…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Proximity, Educational Strategies, Data Analysis
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Bates, Eric T.; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2004
This research investigated the impact of personalizing mathematical word problems using individual student interests on student problem-solving performance. Ten word problems were selected randomly from a mathematics textbook to create a series of two assessments. Both assessments contained problems exactly as they appeared in the textbook and…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Textbooks, Student Interests, Interest Inventories
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