Analyzing Online Behaviors, Roles, and Learning Communities via Online Discussions

Yu-Chu Yeh

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 1 (2010) pp. 140–151

Online learning communities are an important means of sharing and creating knowledge. Online behaviors and online roles can reveal how online learning communities function. However, no study has elucidated the relationships among online behaviors,...

What Personal Traits Would Matter to the Improvement of Personal Teaching Efficacy in a Computer-Simulation Training?

Yu-Chu Yeh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3456–3459

Personal teaching efficacy refers to a teacher's belief that he or she has the competence and skills to bring about student learning; it is related to a teacher's enthusiasm in teaching as well as the effectiveness in the classroom. To enhance the...

Topics: Training, Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Intelligence

Aptitude-treatment interactions in preservice teachers’ behavior change during computer-simulated teaching

Yu-Chu Yeh

Computers & Education Vol. 48, No. 3 (April 2007) pp. 495–507

Adapting training methods to specific teacher traits to best facilitate the training effects for preservice teachers is an important, yet neglected, topic in aptitude-treatment interaction research. This study investigated interactions between four...

Topics: Preservice Teacher Education

Nurturing reflective teaching during critical-thinking instruction in a computer simulation program

Yu-Chu Yeh

Computers & Education Vol. 42, No. 2 (February 2004) pp. 181–194

Nurturing reflective teaching and improving critical-thinking instruction are two important goals in teacher education, but these are only achievable when teachers-in-training are provided with opportunities for building professional knowledge and...

Language: English

Integrating E-Learning into the Direct-Instruction Model to Enhance the Effectiveness of Critical-Thinking Instruction

Yu-Chu Yeh

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 37, No. 2 (March 2009) pp. 185–203

The "Direct-instruction Model" favors the use of teacher explanations and modeling combined with student practice and feedback to teach thinking skills. Using this paradigm, this study incorporates e-learning during an 18-week experimental...

Meaningful Gamification for Journalism Students to Enhance Their Critical Thinking Skills

Ling-Yi Huang; Yu-Chu Yeh

International Journal of Game-Based Learning Vol. 7, No. 2 (April 2017) pp. 47–62

Training in critical thinking is essential for the professional development of journalism students. To achieve this goal, this study developed a gamified platform and a blended learning curriculum. During an 18-week experimental instruction period,...

The Effects of Infusing E-learning into the Instruction of Minority Language in Taiwan

Kai Ming Huang; Yu-Chu Yeh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 5445–5448

Minority languages themselves are valuable cultural assets; the reservation of such assets should contribute to multicultural education and the development of multicultural society. Since the explosion in technology has many implications for...

Topics: Educational Technology, Culture, Multicultural Education, Languages

Responding to Student Learning Styles Within a Visual Basic Simulation

Harold R. Strang; Amie K. Sullivan; Yu-Chu Yeh

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 652–654

Building on the research that Strang and Yeh (1995) conducted with the Curry Teaching Simulation, this study employs the recently developed Teaching Decisions (TD) Simulation (Strang, 1996) to explore how preservice teachers respond to software...

The Effects of Integrating E-learning into the Direct-instruction Model

Yu-Chu Yeh; Li-Chuan Lin; Kai-Ming Huang; Chi-Che Lin; Yueh-Yin Peng

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1539–1543

The Direct-instruction Model favors the use of teacher explanations and modeling combined with student practice and feedback to teach thinking skills. Using this paradigm, this study incorporates e-learning during an 18-week experimental instruction ...

Topics: Teachers, Instructional Design