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A case study in the participatory design of a collaborative science-based learning environment
George Chin
(2004) pp. 1–517
Educational technology research studies have found computer and software technologies to be underutilized in U.S. classrooms. In general, many teachers have had difficulty integrating computer and software technologies into learning activities and...
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A multimedia introduction to Chinese traditional music and musical instruments
Jane Chin
A multimedia @?introduction to Chinese traditional@music and musical@instruments (2006) pp. 1–116
Anecdotal evidence and personal observations gathered during the author's research in both the United States and Taiwan suggested that many persons of Chinese heritage, regardless of their age or country of origin, were unaware of their traditional...
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Critical Trial Use of TIMS as an Alternative Instructional Delivery Tool
Chin Uy
Asia Pacific Education Review Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005) pp. 28–40
This quantitative-qualitative study seeks to determine the effectiveness of TIMS (Thomasian Interactive Multimedia Software) in teaching the introductory topics in Trigonometry. The acceptability of the software to the student respondents was...
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Machine Translation in Post-Contemporary Era
Grace Hui Chin Lin
International Conference on TESOL and Translation 2010 (Dec 10, 2010)
This article focusing on translating techniques via personal computer or laptop reports updated artificial intelligence progresses before 2010. Based on interpretations and information for field of MT [Machine Translation] by Yorick Wilks' book, ...
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Practical Considerations for Multimedia Courseware Development: An EFL IVD Experience
Hsien-Chin Liou
CALICO Journal Vol. 11, No. 3 (1994) pp. 47–74
In this paper, an attempt to apply the synthesized results from previous research on theories of actual development of courseware is demonstrated in an interactive videodisc project that aims to promote English-as-a-foreign-language learning at...
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A factor analysis of Taiwanese learner's perceptions of online learning
Chin-Wen Chang
(2008) pp. 1–164
The purpose of the study was to identify Taiwanese students' perceptions of online courses. The population to be studied comprised students enrolled in at least one online course at the university during the Spring 2008 semester. Five hundred forty...
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The l986 International Conference on Chinese Computing
Chin-Chuan Cheng
Journal of Chinese Linguistics Vol. 15, No. 2 (1987) pp. 364–66
Describes the highlights of the activities and papers presented at the conference including the following: an analysis of Chinese data processing systems and Chinese sentences, natural language processing, language lesson authoring systems,...
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Information Commitments in Web-Based Learning Environments
Chin-Chung Tsai
Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2004) pp. 105–112
This paper proposes the idea of 'information commitments' for Web-based learning environments. Information commitments are a set of evaluative standards which Web users utilize in order to assess the accuracy and usefulness of Web-based materials....
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A Web-based technology for fostering initiative
Su Chin Jones
(1998) pp. 1–193
Educators have been interested in promoting student agency in the classroom and in encouraging students to take more action in their own learning. This research addresses this issue by examining student initiative and focusing on how to foster this...
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STATISTICA 5.0 [software review]
Wynne W. Chin
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal Vol. 3, No. 2 (1996) pp. 196–201
The SEPATH structural equation modeling (SEM) software is a new module in the latest release of STATISTICA (version 5.0) for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. SEPATH is a program that provides a comprehensive set of functions for the SEM modeling. The...
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Vertical Stream Curricula Integration of Problem-Based Learning Using an Autonomous Vacuum Robot in a Mechatronics Course
Cheng Chin; Keng Yue
European Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 36, No. 5 (2011) pp. 485–504
Difficulties in teaching a multi-disciplinary subject such as the mechatronics system design module in Departments of Mechatronics Engineering at Temasek Polytechnic arise from the gap in experience and skill among staff and students who have...
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Preferences toward Internet-Based Learning Environments: High School Students' Perspectives for Science Learning
Chin-Chung Tsai
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 2 (2005) pp. 203–213
Constructivist Internet-based learning environments are advocated by contemporary educators, but few studies investigated students' preferences toward the environments for learning a specific school subject such as science. Therefore, the purpose of ...
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Facilitating Metacognitive Processes of Academic Genre-Based Writing Using an Online Writing System
Hui-Chin Yeh
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 28, No. 6 (2015) pp. 479–498
Few studies have investigated how metacognitive processes foster the application of genre knowledge to students' academic writing. This is largely due to its internal and unobservable characteristics. To bridge this gap, an online writing system...
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A study profiling characteristics of nontraditional students in an human resource development degree concentration option
Hui-Chin Chu
A study profiling characteristics of nontraditional students in an human@resource@development@degree concentration option (1999) pp. 1–135
This research centers on the factors affecting degree completion of nontraditional students in this Human Resource Development degree completion program. Degree completion is very important to all stakeholders including educators, administrators,...
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An individual differences learning model (IDL) for asynchronous distributed learning (ADL) preferences: Gender, cultural backgrounds, learning styles, and attitudes toward collaborative learning
Su-Chin Wu
An individual@differences@learning model (IDL) for asynchronous@distributed@learning (ADL) preferences: Gender, cultural@backgrounds, learning@styles, and attitudes toward collaborative@learning (2006) pp. 1–201
The purpose of this study was to empirically develop and test a hypothesized theoretical causal model of differences in individuals' preference for asynchronous distributed learning (ADL). This individual differences learning model (IDL) explicates...
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Fashioning curriculum reform as identity politics—Taiwan's dilemma of curriculum reform in new millennium
Chin-Ju Mao
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 28, No. 5 (September 2008) pp. 585–595
This paper explores indigenization and globalization, the double issue of curriculum and identity as a dialectical contradiction that characterizes the ambivalence of “Taiwanese identity.” “Taiwanese identity” is treated as a social, political, and...
Language: English
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Exploring the Perceived Benefits of the Process of Multimodal Video Making in Developing Multiliteracies
Hui-Chin Yeh
Language Learning & Technology Vol. 22, No. 2 (2018) pp. 28–37
The digital technology era has profoundly evolved and changed the ways that people consume and produce information. As language itself is recognized as a multimodal resource for communicative purposes, different forms of multimodality have been...
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Language Learning through Social Networks: Perceptions and Reality
Chin-Hsi Lin
(2012) pp. 1–162
A growing number of people study languages online, and little is known about their attitudes toward this new learning approach, what practices they engage in, or what kinds of interaction they are involved in. This dissertation investigates users'...
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Can Grammatical CALL Help EFL Writing Instruction?
Hsien Chin-Liou
CALICO Journal Vol. 10, No. 1 (1992) pp. 23–44
A one-year study is reported that addresses whether and in which way grammatically computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can help English writing instruction in a Taiwanese setting. Results of a CALL courseware intervention with first-year...
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The relationships among computer usage, experience with the computer, computer anxiety, and attitudes toward computers for secondary agricultural education teachers in the United States
Tzu-chin Rejoice Chou
(1997) pp. 1–231
The purpose of this study was to integrate the theories by developing a model incorporating the constructs of computer usage, experience with the computer anxiety, and attitudes toward computers. This study examined the causal process of how...
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Motivating and inhibiting factors that affect student participation in distance education at Idaho State University
Chin-Wuu Leu
Motivating and inhibiting factors that affect student participation in distance education at Idaho@State@University (2002) pp. 1–219
The purpose of this study was to identify motivating and inhibiting factors that affected student participation in distance education at Idaho State University, and to examine if there were any statistically significant differences in motivating and ...
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New benchmarks in higher education: Student engagement in online learning
Chin Choo Robinson
New benchmarks in higher@education: Student engagement in online learning (2006) pp. 1–324
The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web has brought about sweeping changes in higher education, transforming delivery systems and teaching methodologies. Simultaneously, stakeholders in education continue to demand accountability and a...
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Attitudes of Taiwanese nontraditional commercial institute students toward computers
Kuang-Yi Chin
Attitudes of Taiwanese nontraditional commercial@institute@students toward computers (2001) pp. 1–109
As computer usage becomes necessary on university campuses across the world, the issue of examining students' attitudes toward computers becomes very important and highly challenging. The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of...
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Promoting interactions between lecturers and students in classrooms via mobile technologies: An empirical study
Chin Gan; Vimala Balakrishnan
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun 09, 2017)
The current study sets out to identify determinants affecting behavioural intention to use mobile technology in lecture classes. The research emphasizes the reason for using mobile technology during lectures with large number of students is to...
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Investigating the Impact of Cognitive Style on Multimedia Learners' Understanding and Visual Search Patterns: An Eye-Tracking Approach
Han-Chin Liu
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 55, No. 8 (2018) pp. 1053–1068
Multimedia students' dependence on information from the outside world can have an impact on their ability to identify and locate information from multiple resources in learning environments and thereby affect the construction of mental models. Field ...
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An Automatic Text-Analysis Project for EFL Writing Revision
Hsien-Chin Liou
System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics Vol. 20, No. 4 (1992) pp. 481–92
A year-long project to develop an automatic English grammar text-analysis for Chinese students in Taiwan to help writing revision processes is described. The project analyzed 135 writing samples, developed an electronic dictionary, and researched...
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Theory-Based Interactive Videodisc for EFL Learning: Design Considerations
Hsien-Chin Liou
A discussion of the design of effective instructional materials for English as a Second Language (ESL) focuses on the application of second language learning theories and concepts of instructional design from educational technology to development of ...
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Research of On-Line Help as Learner Strategies for Multimedia CALL Evaluation
Hsien-Chin Liou
CALICO Journal Vol. 14, No. 2 (1997) pp. 81–96
Reviews learner strategy research, strategy instruction, and on-line help in multimedia instructional materials, and reports on a study investigating 20 native Chinese-speaking English language learners' use of computer resource facilities (e.g.,...
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Development of an English Grammar Checker: A Progress Report
Hsien-Chin Liou
CALICO Journal Vol. 9, No. 1 (1991) pp. 57–70
A computer grammar checker is described that evolved from a sample of errors and resulting in a taxonomy of 14 main and 93 subtypes. Using a 1,402-word stem electronic dictionary, an augmented transition network parser, and a set of disambiguating...
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A Typology of the Use of Educational Media, with Implications for Internet-based Instruction
Chin-Chung Tsai
Educational Media International Vol. 37, No. 3 (2000) pp. 157–60
Describes a typology of the use of educational media that includes audience, location, time, interactivity, cost, and training. Compares a variety of educational media including radio, television, CD-ROM, and Internet-based instruction, and...
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Integrating Internet resources into the learning of English as a Foreign Language in a Taiwanese high school: A case study
Chin-Fen Chen
(1998) pp. 1–212
This research study explores use of Internet resources for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in Taiwanese high school EFL education. The overall objectives of this research are to examine qualitatively 40 high school students' performance,...
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The Roles of "Second Life" in a College Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Course in Taiwan, ROC
Hsien-Chin Liou
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 25, No. 4 (2012) pp. 365–382
Various language learning projects using "Second Life" (SL) have been documented; still, their specific learning potentials, particularly in English as a foreign language (EFL) context, remain to be explored. The current study aims to add one piece...
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Reinterpreting and reconstructing science: Teachers’ view changes toward the nature of science by courses of science education
Chin-Chung Tsai
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 22, No. 3 (April 2006) pp. 363–375
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of science education courses on a group of Taiwanese inservice and preservice teachers’ views toward the nature of science. There were two science education courses in the study; one was for 36...
Language: English
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Training nursing students' communication skills with online video peer assessment
Chin-Yuan Lai
Computers & Education Vol. 97, No. 1 (June 2016) pp. 21–30
Communication is an important skill which nursing students must master in order to be effective in their career. One of the purposes of this study was to implement an online video peer assessment system to scaffold their communication skills. The...
Language: English
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A Scale of University Students' Attitudes toward e-Learning on the Moodle System
Tzu-Chin Chou
International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design Vol. 4, No. 3 (July 2014) pp. 49–65
There are more universities in Taiwan have incorporated e-learning as the main teaching system. However, it is a critical issue to understand learners' attitudes toward the system. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to test an e-learning...
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Conceptions of learning versus conceptions of web-based learning: The differences revealed by college students
Chin-Chung Tsai
Computers & Education Vol. 53, No. 4 (December 2009) pp. 1092–1103
Past research has shown the variations of students’ conceptions of learning, but little has been especially undertaken to address students’ conceptions of web-based learning and to make comparisons between students’ conceptions of learning in...
Language: English
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Supporting Argumentation through Students' Questions: Case Studies in Science Classrooms
Christine Chin; Jonathan Osborne
Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 19, No. 2 (2010) pp. 230–284
This study explores how student-generated questions can support argumentation in science. Students were asked to discuss which of two graphs showing the change in temperature with time when ice is heated to steam was correct. Four classes of...
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Digitized Speech as Feedback on Cognitive Aspects of Psychomotor Performance during Computer-Based Instruction
James Chin-yun Huang
1995 Annual National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), (1995)
Computer-based instruction opens new avenues for increasing the variety of possible feedback strategies that a teacher may employ to optimize learner performance. Feedback effectiveness is influenced by the nature of learning task and student...
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Realization of Complex Onsets by Pediatric Users of Cochlear Implants
Steven B. Chin
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 20, No. 7 (2006) pp. 501–508
This study examined variations in English complex onset realizations by children who use cochlear implants. Data consisted of 227 productions of two-segment onset clusters from 12 children. In general, onset cluster realizations of children with...
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Assessing Learner Strategies Using Computers: New Insights and Limitations
Hsien-Chin Liou
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 13, No. 1 (2000) pp. 65–78
Discusses the assessment of learner strategies in the computer assisted language learning context, and the pros and cons. Reviews empirical studies that have used the computer to record the interactive process where second language learners...
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Pre-Service English Teachers' Perceptions and Practice of Field Experience and Professional Learning from Expert Teachers' Mentoring
Chin-Wen Chien
Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice Vol. 21, No. 3 (2015) pp. 328–345
Though it is well known that pre-service teachers' field experiences are recognized as key to enhancing teaching practice, Taiwanese pre-service teachers who take "Teaching Methods and Materials" in elementary school's seven...
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The effect of structured Web activities and a Multimedia Sentence Structure Module on single-sentence English writing among freshmen international trade majors at a vocation college in Taiwan
Kuei-chin Tai
The effect of @?structured @?Web activities and a Multimedia@Sentence@Structure@Module on single@-sentence English writing among freshmen international@trade@majors at a vocation@college in Taiwan (2007) pp. 1–214
The purpose of this study is to address the effectiveness of structured web activities in a Multimedia Sentence Structure Module (MSS Module) in improving single sentence English writing among freshmen International Trade majors at a Taiwanese...
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Content Analysis of Taiwanese 14 Year Olds' Information Processing Operations Shown in Cognitive Structures Following Physics Instruction, with Relations to Science Attainment and Scientific Epistemological Beliefs
Chin-Chung Tsai
Research in Science & Technological Education Vol. 17, No. 2 (1999) pp. 125–38
Describes a study of Taiwanese 14-year-olds' (n=48) cognitive structures derived from the instruction of basic atomic physics. Finds that even academically above-average students tended to use relatively lower-level modes of knowledge construction,...
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Posing Problems for Open Investigations: What Questions Do Pupils Ask?
Christine Chin; G Kayalvizhi
Research in Science & Technological Education Vol. 20, No. 2 (2002) pp. 269–87
Reports on a study that explored the types of questions that students ask for open-ended science investigations. Discusses how teachers can help students identify problems and pose questions that are feasible for investigation. (Contains 55...
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The effects of computer-mediated communication by a course management system (Moodle) on EFL Taiwanese student's English reading achievement and perceptions
Pei-Chin (Jean) Hsieh
The effects of computer@-mediated@communication by a course management system (Moodle) on EFL Taiwanese student's English reading achievement and perceptions (2009) pp. 1–157
This research study compared the effects of three instructional methods—collaborative synchronous online communication, asynchronous online communication, and independent study as traditional in grammar translation method—in English reading...
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The Impact of WWW Texts on EFL Learning
Hsien-Chin Liou
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 10, No. 5 (1997) pp. 455–78
A study investigated effectiveness of use of World Wide Web texts in a college English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writing class, finding that the reading comprehension and writing skills of 15 students using the Web-based materials improved more...
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Exploring How Collaborative Dialogues Facilitate Synchronous Collaborative Writing
Hui-Chin Yeh
Language Learning & Technology Vol. 18, No. 1
Collaborative writing (CW) research has gained prevalence in recent years. However, the ways in which students interact socially to produce written texts through synchronous collaborative writing (SCW) is rarely studied. This study aims to...
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The interpretation construction design model for teaching science and its applications to Internet-based instruction in Taiwan
Chin-Chung Tsai
International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 21, No. 5 pp. 401–415
This paper uses the Interpretation Construction Design Model proposed by Black and McClintock (1996) [An interpretation construction approach to constructivist design. In: Wilson, B. (Ed.), Constructivist Learning Environments. Educational...
Language: English
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Assessing Learner Strategies Using Computers: New Insights and Limitations
Hsien-Chin Liou
Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics 1995 (March 1995)
This paper discusses the assessment of learner strategies in the computer-assisted language learning context. It first reviews empirical studies, including two recent projects that have used the computer to record the interactive process where...
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The effects of asynchronous peer review on university students' argumentative writing
Ya-Chin Tsai
The effects of asynchronous@peer@review on university students' argumentative@writing (2006) pp. 1–188
In contrast to oral response groups, asynchronous peer review (APR) has received relatively little attention in writing research. This study was motivated largely by the question of whether delayed peer commentary relayed by technology could lead...