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Lin, Yi-Chun; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between students' epistemic beliefs in biology and their approaches to learning biology. To this end, two instruments, the epistemic beliefs in biology and the approaches to learning biology surveys, were developed and administered to 520 university biology students, respectively. By and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), College Students, Biology
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Huang, Jie-Tsuen; Hsieh, Hui-Hsien – Journal of Career Assessment, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the contributions of socioeconomic status (SES) in predicting social cognitive career theory (SCCT) factors. Data were collected from 738 college students in Taiwan. The results of the partial least squares (PLS) analyses indicated that SES significantly predicted career decision self-efficacy (CDSE);…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Social Theories, Epistemology, Least Squares Statistics
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Tsai, Chin-Chung; Ho, Hsin Ning Jessie; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Lin, Hung-Ming – Learning and Instruction, 2011
This study examined the relationships among Taiwanese high school students' scientific epistemic beliefs, conceptions of learning science, and self-efficacy of learning science. The questionnaire responses gathered from 377 high school students in Taiwan were utilized to elicit such relationships. The analysis of the structural equation model…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study reports on integrating ESP (English for specific purposes) multimedia courseware for semiconductor technology into instruction of three different language programs in higher education by using it as a silent partner. It focuses primarily on techniques and tools to motivate retention of under-prepared students in an EFL setting. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Technical Education, Foreign Countries
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Hong, Huang-Yao; Lin-Siegler, Xiaodong – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
How does learning about scientists' struggles during their scientific knowledge building affect students' science learning? Two hundred and seventy-one high school students were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: (a) the struggle-oriented background information (n = 90) condition, which presented students with stories about 3 scientists'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Physics
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Liu, Po-Hung – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2010
College students' epistemological belief in their academic performance of mathematics has been documented and is receiving increased attention. However, to what extent and in what ways problem solvers' beliefs about the nature of mathematical knowledge and thinking impact their performances and behavior is not clear and deserves further…
Descriptors: College Students, Mathematics Education, Investigations, Standardized Tests
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Zeidler, Dana L.; Herman, Benjamin C.; Ruzek, Mitch; Linder, Anne; Lin, Shu-Sheng – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
The purpose of this investigation was to examine, from a cross-cultural perspective, students' epistemological patterns of reasoning about socioscientific issues (SSI), and to identify potential interactions of cultural and scientific identity. Mediating factors associated with students' argumentation and discourse about SSI, as well as the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Self Concept, Cross Cultural Studies, Thinking Skills
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Lai, Yen-Shou; Tsai, Hung-Hsu; Yu, Pao-Ta – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
This study introduces a learning environment integrating annotations with a dual-slide PowerPoint presentation for classroom learning. Annotation means a kind of additional information to emphasize the explanations for the learning objects. The use of annotations is to support the cognitive process for PowerPoint presentation in a classroom. The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Multimedia Materials, Projection Equipment, Educational Environment
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Chien, Shih-Chieh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the role of students' use of writing strategies in light of their English writing achievements in Taiwan. This research used a cognitive approach to examine the process of writing. Forty student writers (including 20 low and 20 high achievers) in Taiwan participated in this study. Strategies used for…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Low Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Hsiao, Kuo-Lun – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Although videoconferencing software and equipment have been widely used in enterprises and education in recent year, few past studies experimentally examined the factors influencing users' continuous intention to attend one-to-some online courses via videoconferencing software in distance learning. In order to provide researchers with a better…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Online Courses, Videoconferencing
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Czerniewicz, L. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2010
This paper uses the literature of educational technology as the site of analysis in order to map the field of educational technology. Having considered Kuhn and Bourdieu's theories, the paper frames the analysis of the field in Bernsteinian terms as a horizontal knowledge structure in a vertical knowledge discourse. Using the concepts of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Cognitive Structures, Educational History
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Liu, Po-Hung – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
The present study observed how Taiwanese college students' epistemological beliefs about mathematics evolved during a year-long historical approach calculus course. On the basis of the characteristics of initial accounts, seven students were invited to participate in this study and were divided into two groups. An open-ended questionnaire,…
Descriptors: College Students, Biographies, Calculus, Epistemology
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Tsai, Ming-Tien; Cheng, Nai-Chang – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
The research includes various constructs based on social exchange theory and social cognitive theory. This study mainly explored the relationships among organisational justice, trust, commitment and knowledge-sharing cognition and verified their mediating effects through two variables of trust and commitment. A survey utilising a questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy
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Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest among educational researchers in exploring the relationships between learners' epistemological beliefs and their conceptions of learning. This study was conducted to investigate these relationships particularly in the domain of science. The participants in this study included 407 Taiwanese…
Descriptors: College Science, Science Interests, Educational Research, Majors (Students)
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Wang, Tsungjuang – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2009
A model of curriculum development that enables students of architecture in the developing nation of Taiwan to draw on their own life experiences in formulating their own architectural education is proposed. Such an ideology recognizes that while education certainly includes the acquisition of the technical skills needed to ply one's trade, its…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Architectural Education, Architecture
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