Learning about Seasons in a Technologically Enhanced Environment: The Impact of Teacher-Guided and Student-Centered Instructional Approaches on the Process of Students' Conceptual Change

Ying-Shao Hsu

Science Education Vol. 92, No. 2 (March 2008) pp. 320–344

To explore the ways in which teacher-guided and student-centered instructional approaches influence students' conceptual understanding of seasonal change, we designed a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) course to compare, by means of concept maps,...

"Lesson Rainbow": The Use of Multiple Representations in an Internet-Based, Discipline-Integrated Science Lesson

Ying-Shao Hsu

British Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. 37, No. 4 (July 2006) pp. 539–557

This paper presents the development and evaluation of a web-based lesson--Lesson Rainbow. This lesson features multiple representations (MRs), which purposefully deliver concepts in relation to distinctive disciplinary subject areas through story...

Using the Internet to Develop Students' Capacity for Scientific Inquiry

Ying-Shao Hsu

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 31, No. 2 (Feb 01, 2004) pp. 137–161

In this study, an interactive process in a Web-based learning environment was planned for the cultivation of students' cooperative learning skills and capacity for scientific inquiry. Based on detailed analyses of students' computer protocols,...

Conceptual Change in Technology-Enhanced Environments with Various Instructional Approaches

Ying-Shao Hsu; Yuting Ho

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1226–1231

In order to explore if instructional approaches (teacher-guided or students-centered) influence students conceptual understanding about reasons for the seasons with an aid of technology, we designed a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) course to...

Topics: Students, Middle School Education, Instructional Design, Teachers, Learning Outcomes

The Tools of Teacher Education: Preservice Teachers’ Use of Technology to Create Instructional Materials

Sherron Killingsworth Roberts; Ying-shao Hsu

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 2 (2000) pp. 133–152

This research examined the effectiveness and efficiency of preservice teachers' use of technology to create instructional materials developed in an undergraduate reading and lan-guage arts course. Four trained raters judged the quality of 130...

Topics: Teachers, Instructional Materials

Improving High School Students’ Ability to Evaluate Evidence and Use Evidence in Socioscientific Contexts and Educational Software Environments

Shu-Sheng Lin; Ying-Shao Hsu

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) p. 1683

Developing students’ higher order thinking skills is one of important goals in contemporary science education. The study aimed at developing one teaching module with an educational software to improve students’ ability to evaluate evidence and...

Using a web-based Inquiry to improve secondary school students’ learning in the Moon’s phases

Hung-Jean Wu; Ying-Shao Hsu

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2298–2303

This research intends to construct environment for Web-Based Inquiry Learning (WBIL) which provides the opportunities for students to build up concept of the phases of moon. Besides, we use the WBIL to investigate the conceptual change about...

Topics: Students, Change

Survey of Instructional Technology Courses for Preservice Teachers

YING-SHAO HSU; CONSTANCE P. HARGRAVE

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 4 (2000) pp. 303–314

Most teacher preparation programs offer one course in which preservice teachers are to develop their basic technology skills. If innovative pedagogy is the goal (of technology use in the classroom), the single instructional technology course may ...

Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers, Educational Technology

The Promotion of Scientific Process Skills Through Network-Based Courseware

Ying-Shao Hsu; Hung-Jean Wu

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 732–735

This article presents the development and evaluation of a network-based courseware which was used to cultivate high school students' scientific process skills. The courseware developed in this research was targeted to prompt students to analyze tide ...

Topics: Elementary Education, Science, Schools, Students, Computer Sciences

Understanding science teachers' enactments of a computer-based inquiry curriculum

Su-Chi Fang; Ying-Shao Hsu

Computers & Education Vol. 112, No. 1 (September 2017) pp. 69–82

In order to spread and encourage the use of innovative computer-based inquiry curricula in classrooms, it is fundamental to understand how teachers enact the curricula. It is also essential to study what kinds of teaching practices can enhance...

Language: English

Project VBased Learning Through The Internet

Ying-Shao Hsu; Yu-Yen Chiang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2632–2636

This article presents the development and evaluation of a web-based lesson that was for project-based learning. This research project employs the Quasi-Experimental method to investigate the effects of project-based learning at the senior high...

Topics: Schools, Information Sciences, Research Methods, Students

The Impacts of a Web-Aided Instructional Simulation on Science Learning

Ying-Shao Hsu; Rex A. Thomas

International Journal of Science Education Vol. 24, No. 9 (2002) pp. 955–79

Investigates the effects of selected characteristics of a web-aided instructional simulation on students' conceptual change, problem solving, and transfer abilities. Conducts a two-pronged research study with (n=117) students enrolled in a beginning ...

The Effect of Metacognitive Prompts on Students Decision Making Abilities in a Socio-Scientific Issue Context

Ying-Shao Hsu; Shu-Sheng Lin

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 2155–2164

The present study aims to develop senior high school students’ decision-making (DM) abilities regarding Socio-Scientific Issues (SSIs) through incorporating the DM framework which includes three stages: recognizing the decision problem,...

Topics: Teaching/Learning Strategies, Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications

The Tools of Teacher Education: Preservice Teachers' Use of Technology To Create Instructional Materials

Sherron Killingsworth Roberts; Ying-Shao Hsu

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 2 (2000) pp. 133–52

Examines the effectiveness/efficiency of preservice teachers' use of technology to create instructional materials developed in an undergraduate reading/language arts course. Results showed no significant difference between measures of overall...

The Use of Multiple Representations in a Web-Based and Situated Learning Environment

Ying-Shao Hsu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 816–820

This article presents the development and evaluation of a web-based lesson with multiple representations that is developed to cultivate situated learning. The quasi-experimental method along with semi-structured interviews was used to investigate...

Topics: Students

Examining Instructional Designs in Technology Enhanced Learning Environment

Ying-Shao Hsu; Yuting Ho; Hsin-Kai Wu

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1390–1396

In order to explored if instructional approaches (teacher-centered or students-centered) and exploratory learning activity (hands-on or computer simulation) influence students conceptual understanding about reasons for the seasons, we designed a...

Topics: Learning Outcomes, Teachers, Instructional Design, Students

Fostering High School Students' Conceptual Understandings about Seasons: The Design of a Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment

Ying-Shao Hsu; Hsin-Kai Wu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

Research in Science Education Vol. 38, No. 2 (March 2008) pp. 127–147

The purpose of this study is to understand in what ways a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment supports learning about the causes of the seasons. The environment was designed to engage students in five cognitive phases: Contextualisation,...

Teachers' Adoption of Technology in Classrooms: Does School Size Matter?

Hsin-Kai Wu; Ying-Shao Hsu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2740–2747

This study investigates the effects of school size on teachers' adoption of technology in classrooms. Using national survey data collected from 940 science and mathematics teachers at junior high schools in Taiwan, we employed factor analyses, log...

Topics: Interaction, Educational Technology, Mathematics, Attitudes, Middle School Education

Designing a Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment to Support Scientific Modeling

Hsin-Kai Wu; Ying-Shao Hsu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 9, No. 4 (October 2010) pp. 58–65

Modeling of a natural phenomenon is of value in science learning and increasingly emphasized as an important component of science education. However, previous research has shown that secondary school students encounter difficulties when engaging in...

Where To Build A Tide Power Plant?- Cooperative Learning On The Web

Ying-Shao Hsu; Hung-Jean Wu; Chi-Chuan Chen

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 1300–1301

The article presents the implementation process of developing web-based courseware which was used to cultivate high school students' problem-solving and communication skills through cooperative learning. Students completed some exercises which help...

Topics: Communication, Networking Technologies, Information Communication Technologies, Students

Major Strands in Scientific Inquiry through Cluster Analysis of Research Abstracts

Yi-Fen Yeh; Tsung-Hau Jen; Ying-Shao Hsu

International Journal of Science Education Vol. 34, No. 18 (2012) pp. 2811–2842

Scientific inquiry involves a variety of abilities scientists use to investigate the natural world. In order to develop students' scientific inquiry, researchers and educators have developed different curricula and a variety of instructional...

A Comparison Study of Augmented Reality versus Interactive Simulation Technology to Support Student Learning of a Socio-Scientific Issue

Hsin-Yi Chang; Ying-Shao Hsu; Hsin-Kai Wu

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 24, No. 6 (2016) pp. 1148–1161

We investigated the impact of an augmented reality (AR) versus interactive simulation (IS) activity incorporated in a computer learning environment to facilitate students' learning of a socio-scientific issue (SSI) on nuclear power plants and...

The Use of Multiple Representations in a Discipline-Integrated Science Lesson On The Web

Ying-Shao Hsu; Fu-Kwun Hwang; Yung-Ta Chang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1287–1290

This article presents the development and evaluation of a web-based lesson with multiple representations story-based animations displaying a daily-life situation, and discipline-integrated themes. The quasi-experimental method along with semi...

Topics: Science, Information Sciences, Middle School Education, Students

Factors Affecting Teachers' Adoption of Technology in Classrooms: Does School Size Matter?

Hsin-Kai Wu; Ying-Shao Hsu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2008) pp. 63–85

Researchers in educational technology have searched for factors to explain teachers' acceptance and resistance to using technology for instruction. Among the many identified factors, however, organizational and school factors have not yet been...

The Role of Computer Simulation in an Inquiry-Based Learning Environment: Reconstructing Geological Events as Geologists

Li-Fen Lin; Ying-Shao Hsu; Yi-Fen Yeh

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 21, No. 3 (June 2012) pp. 370–383

Several researchers have investigated the effects of computer simulations on students' learning. However, few have focused on how simulations with authentic contexts influences students' inquiry skills. Therefore, for the purposes of this study, we...

The Effects of Meta-Cognitive Instruction on Students' Reading Comprehension in Computerized Reading Contexts: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis

Yi-Chin Lan; Yu-Ling Lo; Ying-Shao Hsu

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 17, No. 4 pp. 186–202

Comprehension is the essence of reading. Finding appropriate and effective reading strategies to support students' reading comprehension has always been a critical issue for educators. This article presents findings from a meta-analysis of 17...

Effects of Representation Sequences and Spatial Ability on Students' Scientific Understandings about the Mechanism of Breathing

Hsin-Kai Wu; Yu-Fen Lin; Ying-Shao Hsu

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 41, No. 3 (May 2013) pp. 555–573

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of representation sequences and spatial ability on students' scientific understandings about the mechanism of breathing in human beings. 130 seventh graders were assigned to two groups with...

Emerging Innovative Teacher Education from Situated Cognition in a Web-Based Environment

Tzu-Chiang Lin; Ying-Shao Hsu; Yeong-Jing Cheng

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 100–112

In this paper, the authors first discuss the main rationales of situated cognition and its connections with innovation in teacher education. The challenges that might occur in applying situated cognition in teacher education programs, including...

Factors Influencing Junior High School Teachers' Computer-Based Instructional Practices Regarding Their Instructional Evolution Stages

Ying-Shao Hsu; Hsin-Kai Wu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 10, No. 4 (2007) pp. 118–130

Sandholtz, Ringstaff, & Dwyer (1996) list five stages in the "evolution" of a teacher's capacity for computer-based instruction--entry, adoption, adaptation, appropriation and invention--which hereafter will be called the teacher's computer-based...

Do Teachers' Instructional Evolution and Teaching Seniority Affect Educational Innovation with Technology?

Ying-Shao Hsu; Hsin-Kai Wu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2834–2837

This study explores teachers' instructional evolution and teaching seniority that affect teaching practice of computing technology in classrooms. We conducted a national survey in Taiwan and collected about six hundred science and mathematics...

Topics: Teachers, Schools, Middle School Education

The Research Of Using Different Teaching And Learning Strategies In Computer Courses For Inservice Education

Hsiao-shen Wang; Connie Hargrave; Ying-Shao Hsu

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 746–749

The purpose of the study tried to understand the effect of using different technology-based facilities and materials in computer courses for inservice education. The teaching and learning process in computer courses included group discussion and...

Topics: Teachers, Computers, Educational Technology

A Novice-Expert Study of Modeling Skills and Knowledge Structures about Air Quality

Ying-Shao Hsu; Li-Fen Lin; Hsin-Kai Wu; Dai-Ying Lee; Fu-Kwun Hwang

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 21, No. 5 (October 2012) pp. 588–606

This study compared modeling skills and knowledge structures of four groups as seen in their understanding of air quality. The four groups were: experts (atmospheric scientists), intermediates (upper-level graduate students in a different field),...

Teacher Guidance in two Inquiry-based Instructions for Non-science Majored High School Students

Ting-ling Lai; Ying-Shao Hsu; Fang-Ying Yang; Meng-Jung Tsai

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 6343–6348

Educators generally believe that that inquiry was more appropriate for upper level, or science majors than for introductory or non-science major students. However, studies also found that given the appropriate guidance, non-science majored students...

Topics: Students, Elementary Education, Instructional Design, Teachers, Professional Development

Developing and validating technological pedagogical content knowledge-practical (TPACK-practical) through the Delphi survey technique

Yi‐Fen Yeh; Ying‐Shao Hsu; Hsin‐Kai Wu; Fu‐Kwun Hwang; Tzu‐Chiang Lin

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 45, No. 4 (Jul 23, 2014) pp. 707–722

Technological pedagogical content knowledge TPACK refers to the knowledge set that teachers currently use to further improve the quality of their teaching and assist their students in learning. Several TPACK models have been proposed, either for...

Supporting Scientific Modeling Practices in Atmospheric Sciences: Intended and Actual Affordances of a Computer-Based Modeling Tool

Pai-Hsing Wu; Hsin-Kai Wu; Che-Yu Kuo; Ying-Shao Hsu

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 23, No. 6 (2015) pp. 748–765

Computer-based learning tools include design features to enhance learning but learners may not always perceive the existence of these features and use them in desirable ways. There might be a gap between what the tool features are designed to offer (...

Development and Evaluation of a City-Wide Wireless Weather Sensor Network

Ben Chang; Hsue-Yie Wang; Tian-Yin Peng; Ying-Shao Hsu

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 3 (2010) pp. 270–280

This project analyzed the effectiveness of a city-wide wireless weather sensor network, the Taipei Weather Science Learning Network (TWIN), in facilitating elementary and junior high students' study of weather science. The network, composed of sixty ...

Middle-school students' online information problem solving behaviors on the information retrieval interface

Yi-Fen Yeh; Ying-Shao Hsu; Fu-Tai Chuang; Fu-Kwun Hwang

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 30, No. 2 (May 13, 2014)

With the near-overload of online information, it is necessary to equip our students with the skills necessary to deal with Information Problem Solving (IPS). This study also intended to help students develop major IPS strategies with the assistance...

Science teachers' TPACK-Practical: Standard-setting using an evidence-based approach

Tsung-Hau Jen; Yi-Fen Yeh; Ying-Shao Hsu; Hsin-Kai Wu; Kuan-Ming Chen

Computers & Education Vol. 95, No. 1 (April 2016) pp. 45–62

Technological pedagogical content knowledge-practical (TPACK-P) refers to the knowledge construct that teachers in the digital era develop for and from their teaching practices with technology. This study explored a standard-setting method using...

Language: English

Middle-School Students' Online Information Problem Solving Behaviors on the Information Retrieval Interface

Yi-Fen Yeh; Ying-Shao Hsu; Fu-Tai Chuang; Fu-Kwun Hwang

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 30, No. 2 (2014) pp. 245–260

With the near-overload of online information, it is necessary to equip our students with the skills necessary to deal with Information Problem Solving (IPS). This study also intended to help students develop major IPS strategies with the assistance...

Examining the Efforts of Scaffolds on Scientific Inquiry with Mobile Technology

Ying-Shao Hsu; Li Wen Hsieh; Hsin-Kai Wu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2937–2941

The study aims to examine the impacts of scaffoldings on student questioning, analyzing and explaining abilities in a mobile learning environment which leads them to use probes, accompanying software (DataStudio) and an online forum for scientific...

Topics: Students

The development of a technology-enhanced teacher education curriculum to improve pre-service teachers' e-teaching

Tzu-Chiang Lin; Yeong-Jing Cheng; Ying-Shao Hsu; Fu-Kwun Huang; Fu-tai Jhuang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 105–109

In the presenting work-in-progress project, researchers were tended to figure out how a technology-enhanced teacher education curriculum influences pre-service science teachers' computer skills and perception toward e-teaching. For that aim, a...

Topics: Computer Sciences, Educational Technology, Computers, Teachers, Science

Content Analysis of 1998-2012 Empirical Studies in Science Reading Using a Self-Regulated Learning Lens

Ying-Shao Hsu; Miao-Hsuan Yen; Wen-Hua Chang; Chia-Yu Wang; Sufen Chen

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education Vol. 14, No. 1 (2016)

There is an increasing interest in conducting reading-related studies in science education using a self-regulated learning (SRL) lens. This exploration involved a content analysis of 34 articles (38 studies in total) in highly regarded journals from ...

The study on the pre-service teachers' attitudes and belief on the integration of information technology in teaching

Yung-ta Chang; Yi-zuo Lai; Bij-chyi Hwang; Ying-Shao Hsu

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3842–3844

Abstract: This paper is a report on the findings of the investigation of pre-service teachers' attitudes and belief on the integration of information technology in teaching. The questionnaire with 27 items was used, the samples were from the...

Topics: Teachers, Attitudes, Students

Science Teachers' Proficiency Levels and Patterns of TPACK in a Practical Context

Yi-Fen Yeh; Tzu-Chiang Lin; Ying-Shao Hsu; Hisn-Kai Wu; Fu-Kwun Hwang

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 24, No. 1 (February 2015) pp. 78–90

Technological pedagogical content knowledge-practical (TPACK-P) refers to a unified body of knowledge that teachers develop from and for actual teaching practices with information communication technologies (ICT). This study attempted to unveil the...

Whole Class Dialogic Discussion Meets Taiwan's Physics Teachers: Attitudes and Culture

Haim Eshach; Hsin-Kai Wu; Fu-Kwun Hwang; Ying-Shao Hsu

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 23, No. 1 (February 2014) pp. 183–197

There is a distance between the power that whole class dialogic discussions (WCDD) may offer to the science class and their use in practice. Teachers' attitudes toward WCDD are part of the problem. The aims of this study were twofold: (a) to...

Investigating College and Graduate Students' Multivariable Reasoning in Computational Modeling

Hsin-Kai Wu; Pai-Hsing Wu; Wen-Xin Zhang; Ying-Shao Hsu

Science Education Vol. 97, No. 3 (May 2013) pp. 337–366

Drawing upon the literature in computational modeling, multivariable reasoning, and causal attribution, this study aims at characterizing multivariable reasoning practices in computational modeling and revealing the nature of understanding about...

Exploring the structure of TPACK with video-embedded and discipline-focused assessments

Yi-Fen Yeh; Ying-Shao Hsu; Hsin-Kai Wu; Sung-Pei Chien

Computers & Education Vol. 104, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 49–64

The appropriate selection and implementation of technology in instruction is made possible by teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). The TPACK that inservice teachers develop is practitioner-based and can be continuously...

Language: English

The Research on Integration of Web-based Environment in Science Teacher Education Program

Tzu-Chiang Lin; Ying-Shao Hsu; Yeong-Jing Cheng; Fu-Tai Jhuang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3466–3471

In the presenting project, researchers were tended to identify whether a technology-enhanced curriculum in teacher education program can effectively nurturing pre-service teachers’ competence about e-teaching in modern education milieu. For that aim,...

Topics: Teachers, Computers, Educational Technology, Computer Sciences

Internet Uses by Senior High School Teachers A Case Study

Yeong-Jing Cheng; Guey-Fa Chiou; Ying-Shao Hsu; Chi-Chuan Chen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2732–2738

This research project employs the case study method to investigate the effects of instruction and learning with the Internet at the senior high school level. In the first year of this study, the main focus is to explore the current status of...

Topics: Computer Sciences, Research Methods, Internet, Mathematics, Instructional Design

TEACH Project- Research on Technology-enhanced Curriculum in Science Pre-service Teacher Preparation Program

Tzu-Chiang Lin; Ying-Shao Hsu; Yeong-Jing Cheng; Fu-Kwun Huang; Fu-Tai Jhuang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4729–4734

In the presenting project, researchers tended to figure out how a technology-enhanced teacher preparation curriculum influences the development of pre-service trainees' technological pedagogical content knowledge. For that purpose, the utilization...