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Wang, Lihong; Byram, Michael – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
Investigations of Chinese students and their approaches to learning have emphasised a dichotomy in "western" and "Confucian" approaches to education but in a longitudinal study of Chinese postgraduate students' academic adjustment to a British university the dichotomy is less than real. The focus of this research was on an…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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Chang, Chun-Yen; Yeh, Ting-Kuang; Lin, Chun-Yen; Chang, Yueh-Hsia; Chen, Chia-Li D. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
This study explored the effects of congruency between preferred and actual learning environment (PLE & ALE) perceptions on students' science literacy in terms of science concepts, attitudes toward science, and the understanding of the nature of science in an innovative curriculum of High Scope Project, namely Sci-Tech Mind and Humane Heart…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Investigations, Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries
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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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Hung, Hsiu-Ting – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2009
Video is commonly employed as curriculum enhancement in the foreign language classroom. The use of video as a mediation tool for language production tasks is relatively less cognizant by researchers and practitioners, which points to an area worthy of investigation. This study, therefore, aimed to examine the potential of learner video production…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Investigations, Second Languages, Second Language Learning