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Silvia Wen-Yu Lee – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Research purposes and design: This study aimed to compare the effects of different explicit approaches used in modeling-based instruction on students' understanding of scientific models and modeling (USMM). In Study 1, a self-study approach was compared to a preliminary explicit approach. In Study 2, preliminary explicit approach and embedded…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Models, Epistemology
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Lin, Tzung-Jin – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: The role of students' epistemic understanding of science in mediating their engagement in learning activities and tasks has been highlighted in the literature. Although researchers recognize epistemic knowledge of science as a multi-faceted framework, the so-called person-centered approach that aims to generate meaningful and distinct…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Epistemology
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Yuan-Hsuan Lee; Huang-Yao Hong – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for meaningful constructivist instruction has become essential in teacher education. This study investigated preservice teachers' intention to integrate ICT for constructivist learning from the perspectives of their Internet epistemic beliefs (IEB) and Internet-based learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Constructivism (Learning)
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Lee, Yuan-Hsuan; Hong, Huang-Yao – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study investigated multimodal multiple text comprehension (MMTC) among forty-eight Taiwanese university students, considering their cognitive and affective characteristics. A randomized trial with pre- and post-tests design was applied. The experiment group received a browser-embedded note-taking device along with epistemic prompting. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Reading Comprehension, Individual Differences
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Cheng-Tai Li; Huei-Tse Hou; Wei-Shen Lin – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: Educational board games have been receiving attention from educators in recent years. Designing the rules of board games based on cognitive theory, and further analysing educational board games from more dimensions are important issues that warrant further study. Purpose: The research designed a board game called Chemistry Story to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Grade 8, Chemistry
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Yun-Fang Tu; Gwo-Jen Hwang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The present study employed the draw-a-picture technique and epistemic network analysis (ENA) to reveal university students' viewpoints on ChatGPT-supported learning, as well as the conceptions, roles, and educational objectives of ChatGPT-supported learning among university students with different learning attitudes. The results showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Artificial Intelligence
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Luan, Hui; Li, Tung-Lin; Lee, Min-Hsien – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
In this study, to facilitate the integration of environmental education in science curricula and achieve a more sustainable future, the relationships among scientific epistemic views, decision-making style, and recycling intention based on the theory of planned behavior were investigated. Three instruments (i.e. SEVs, DMS, and RI) were implemented…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
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Cheng, Chia-Hui; Bråten, Ivar; Yang, Fang-Ying; Brandmo, Christian – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
In a sample of 455 Taiwanese upper-secondary school students, latent variable structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesized relationships between beliefs about knowledge in science, beliefs about justification for knowing in science, and justification of knowledge claims concerning science encountered on the Internet. Results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
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Wang, Hsin-Hui; Hong, Zuway-R; She, Hsiao-Ching; Smith, Thomas J.; Fielding, Jill; Lin, Huann-shyang – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: The recommendation from national documents and reports to promote inquiry-related science activities has not been supported by recent studies, which have found the overall frequency of inquiry activities to be negatively associated with student learning outcomes. This study was inspired by such conflicting reports and aimed to clarify…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Epistemology, Beliefs, Literacy
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Cheng, Chia-Hui; Yang, Fang-Ying – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The purpose of this study was to analyze visual attention during students' learning of Toulmin's argument pattern (TAP) and the effects of epistemic beliefs in science on the understanding of argument components. A total of 43 undergraduates were recruited through the Internet. Online questionnaires targeting beliefs about knowledge in science…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Persuasive Discourse, Epistemology
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Park, Wonyong; Wu, Jen-Yi; Erduran, Sibel – Science & Education, 2020
Understanding the nature of science (NOS) has emerged as a core curricular goal since at least the 1960s. While science education reforms around the world have shed light on various epistemic and social underpinnings of science, how science curriculum documents portray the nature of other related disciplines such as mathematics and engineering has…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Educational Change, STEM Education
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Yang, Fang-Ying; Bhagat, Kaushal Kumar; Cheng, Chia-Hui – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to compare the associations of epistemic beliefs in science, performance of scientific reasoning in university students from Taiwan and India, and the relations with their science learning experiences. A total of 126 university students including 67 from Taiwan and 59 from India who had science and mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beliefs, College Students, Logical Thinking
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Yeh, Yi-Fen; Erduran, Sibel; Hsu, Ying-Shao – Science & Education, 2019
The article focuses on the analysis of curriculum documents from Taiwan to investigate how benchmarks for learning nature of science (NOS) are positioned in different versions of the science curricula. Following a review of different approaches to the conceptualization of NOS and the role of NOS in promoting scientific literacy, an empirical study…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction
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Lin, Jing-Wen; Cheng, Tzu-Shan; Wang, Shian-Jang; Chung, Chen-Ting – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Socioscientific issues (SSI) related teaching may positively influence students' scientific epistemological beliefs (SEB). However, research is limited about elementary school students and the methods of web search. This study aimed to investigate Taiwanese sixth-graders' SEB and the impact of different web searches' information positions…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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Liaw, Yuan-Ling; Wu, Yuanyue; Rutkowski, David; Rutkowski, Leslie – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2018
International large-scale assessments such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have emerged as important tools for understanding educational systems within Asia and around the world. Although the achievement scales tend to capture the majority of the world's attention the background scales have become important tools in…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests
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