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Development of a diagnostic system using a testing-based approach for strengthening student prior knowledge
Yi-Chun Lin; Yen-Ting Lin; Yueh-Min Huang
Computers & Education Vol. 57, No. 2 (September 2011) pp. 1557–1570
Students learn new instructions well by building on relevant prior knowledge, as it affects how instructors and students interact with the learning materials. Moreover, studies have found that good prior knowledge can enable students to attain...
Language: English
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Coral-View: A Network-Based Design Environment for Collaborative Learning
Chuen-Tsai Sun; Sunny S. J. Lin
International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 31, No. 2 (Mar 22, 2004)
The vast majority of complex engineering tasks in today's business world are completed using a team-oriented approach. Therefore, teaching collaborative skills to university students can be viewed as a practical means of enhancing their...
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Research on Key Technology in Remote Education System of Spirit Diagnosing by Eye in TCM
Feng Guo; Shaozi Li; Ying Dai; Changle Zhou; Ying Lin
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 9, No. 1 (2011) pp. 101–113
Spirit diagnosing is an important theory in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), by which a TCM doctor can diagnose a patient's body state. But this theory is complicated and difficult to master simply learned from books. To further the theory and...
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The Effect Of Oral Description In Complementing Animated Instruction In A Web-based Learning Environment On Undergraduate Students Achievement Of Different Educational Objectives
Jeff Swain; Mine Munyofu; Khusro Kidwai; Huifen Lin; Bradley Ausman; Francis Dwyer
Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)
The purpose of this study was to test the principle of modality by using audio to deliver verbal information when that information is designed to support non-verbal information such as animations in a computer-based lesson. This was done by...
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Cluster Analysis of Adolescent Blogs
Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Chun-Hung Lin; Feng-Yi Chen; Ping-Chuan Peng
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 69–79
Emerging web applications and networking systems such as blogs have become popular, and they offer unique opportunities and environments for learners, especially for adolescent learners. This study attempts to explore the writing styles and genres...
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Becoming Citizens: Youths' Civic Uses of New Media in Five Digital Cities in East Asia
Wan-Ying Lin; Pauline Hope Cheong; Yong-Chan Kim; Joo-Young Jung
Journal of Adolescent Research Vol. 25, No. 6 (November 2010) pp. 839–857
Asian youths are embracing communication technologies at a burgeoning rate, yet interesting differences in Internet access and use exist among this younger generation. Our empirical investigation provides a rich and comparative look into what Asian...
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A Novel Analog Integrated Circuit Design Course Covering Design, Layout, and Resulting Chip Measurement
Wei-Liang Lin; Wang-Chuan Cheng; Chen-Hao Wu; Hai-Ming Wu; Chang-Yu Wu; Kuan-Hsuan Ho; Chueh-An Chan
IEEE Transactions on Education Vol. 53, No. 2 (May 2010) pp. 282–287
This work describes a novel, first-year graduate-level analog integrated circuit (IC) design course. The course teaches students analog circuit design; an external manufacturer then produces their designs in three different silicon chips. The...
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A simple and effective remedial learning system with a fuzzy expert system
C.‐C. Lin; K.‐H. Guo; Y.‐C. Lin
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 32, No. 6 (December 2016) pp. 647–662
This study aims at implementing a simple and effective remedial learning system. Based on fuzzy inference, a remedial learning material selection system is proposed for a digital logic course. Two learning concepts of the course have been used in...
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Supporting Learning of Variable Control in a Computer-Based Biology Environment: Effects of Prompting College Students To Reflect on Their Own Thinking
Xiaodong Lin; James D. Lehman
Journal of Research in Science Teaching Vol. 36, No. 7 (1999) pp. 837–58
Describes a study of college students who designed and conducted experiments involving control of variables after being assigned to one of four versions of a computer-based biology simulation learning environment. Finds that reason-justification...
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OPASS: An Online Portfolio Assessment and Diagnosis Scheme to Support Web-Based Scientific Inquiry Experiments
Jun-Ming Su; Huan-Yu Lin; Shian-Shyong Tseng; Chia-Jung Lu
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 151–173
Promoting the development of students' scientific inquiry capabilities is a major learning objective in science education. As a result, teachers require effective assessment approaches to evaluate students' scientific inquiry-related performance....
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Establishment and Usability Evaluation of an Interactive AR Learning System on Conservation of Fish
Hao-Chiang Koong Lin; Min-Chai Hsieh; Cheng-Hung Wang; Zong-Yuan Sie; Shei-Hsi Chang
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 10, No. 4 (October 2011) pp. 181–187
In this study, we develop an interactive AR Learning System based on Augmented Reality and interactive touch-screen. The learning content knowledge is about conservation of fish in Taiwan. The system combines the game by the concept of AR book which ...
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Investigating the Relationships between Loneliness and Learning Burnout
Shu-Hui Lin; Yun-Chen Huang
Active Learning in Higher Education Vol. 13, No. 3 (November 2012) pp. 231–243
Loneliness is a common problem for many students. Research indicates that loneliness is associated with relatively poor physical health and depression among students. Burnout in students is also an important issue since it adversely affects students'...
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Development and Evaluation of an Interactive Mobile Learning Environment with Shared Display Groupware
Jie Chi Yang; Yi Lung Lin
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 1 (2010) pp. 195–207
When using mobile devices in support of learning activities, students gain mobility, but problems arise when group members share information. The small size of the mobile device screen becomes problematic when it is being used by two or more...
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Readers Response Approach to English Poetry Teaching
Antonia Hsiu-Chen Lin; Teresa Hsiang-Jen Sher
Annual International Symposium on English Teaching 2000 (November 2000)
This paper describes an elective course at Taiwan's Wen Tzao Ursuline College of Modern Languages, "Concise English Poetry Appreciation and Recitation." The course is based on the reader response approach and targets third year students, leading...
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The Fingertip Effects of Computer-Based Assessment in Education
Hong Lin; Francis Dwyer
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 50, No. 6 (November 2006) pp. 27–31
According to the Committee on the Foundations of Educational Assessment, traditional educational assessment does a reasonable job of measuring knowledge of basic facts, procedures and proficiency of an area of the curriculum. However, the...
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The Use of Virtual Reality Computer Simulation in Learning Port-A Cath Injection
Sing-Ling Tsai; Sin-Kuo Chai; Li-Feng Hsieh; Shirling Lin; Fang-Meei Taur; Wen-Hsu Sung; Ji-Liang Doong
Advances in Health Sciences Education Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 2008) pp. 71–87
Cost-benefit management trends in Taiwan healthcare settings have led nurses to perform more invasive skills, such as Port-A cath administration of medications. Accordingly, nurses must be well-prepared prior to teaching by the mentor and...
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Chinese Text Spacing on Mobile Phones for Senior Citizens
Lin Wang; Hitomi Sato; Pei-Luen Patrick Rau; Kaori Fujimura; Qin Gao; Yoko Asano
Educational Gerontology Vol. 35, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 77–90
In recent years, more and more elderly citizens have begun using mobile phones. However, most text presentations on mobile phones are not suitable for those whose vision has declined with age. The objective of this study was to discover how...
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Computer Self-Efficacy, Competitive Anxiety and Flow State: Escaping from Firing Online Game
Jon-Chao Hong; Chiu Pei-Yu; Hsiao-Feng Shih; Pei-Shin Lin; Jon-Chao Hong
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 2012) pp. 70–76
Flow state in game playing affected by computer self-efficacy and game competitive anxiety was studied. In order to examine the effect of those constructs with high competition, this study select "Escaping from firing online game" which require...
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MAGDAIRE: A model to foster pre-service teachers' ability in integrating ICT and teaching in Taiwan
Chun-Yen Chang; Yu-Ta Chien; Yueh-Hsia Chang; Chen-Yung Lin
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 28, No. 6 (Jan 01, 2012) pp. 983–999
This report describes our efforts in fostering Taiwanese pre-service teachers' ability to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) and teaching. The current state of science teacher education and ICT policies in Taiwan are...
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Formative Assessment Design for PDA Integrated Ecology Observation
Pi-Hsia Hung; Yu-Fen Lin; Gwo-Jen Hwang
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 3 (2010) pp. 33–42
Ubiquitous computing and mobile technologies provide a new perspective for designing innovative outdoor learning experiences. The purpose of this study is to propose a formative assessment design for integrating PDAs into ecology observations. Three ...
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The DIF-Free-Then-DIF Strategy for the Assessment of Differential Item Functioning
Wen-Chung Wang; Ching-Lin Shih; Guo-Wei Sun
Educational and Psychological Measurement Vol. 72, No. 4 (August 2012) pp. 687–708
The DIF-free-then-DIF (DFTD) strategy consists of two steps: (a) select a set of items that are the most likely to be DIF-free and (b) assess the other items for DIF (differential item functioning) using the designated items as anchors. The rank...
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How Instant Messaging Affects the Satisfaction of Virtual Interpersonal Behavior of Taiwan Junior High School Students
Chien-Huang Lin; Ya-Chung Sun; Yueh-Chiang Lee; Shih-Chia Wu
Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life Vol. 42, No. 166 (2007)
Although Instant Messaging (IM) has established itself as one of the most popular modes of communication, little empirical research has explored how adolescents are affected by its use to satisfy their virtual interpersonal relationships. This...
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Development and Evaluation of a Confidence-Weighting Computerized Adaptive Testing
Yung-Chin Yen; Rong-Guey Ho; Li-Ju Chen; Kun-Yi Chou; Yan-Lin Chen
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 3 (2010) pp. 163–176
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the efficiency, precision, and validity of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) could be improved by assessing confidence differences in knowledge that examinees possessed. We proposed a novel...
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The Importance of Technology for Making Cultural Values Visible
Xiaodong Lin; Charles K. Kinzer
Theory Into Practice Vol. 42, No. 3 (2003) pp. 234–42
Explores the potential for using technological tools to foster teacher understanding of cultural diversity and promote teacher reflection, reviewing studies in which different technologies were used in ways that allowed implicit teacher and student...
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Eportfolios in the Sciences: The Role of Reflection as students build professional skills and career readiness
Kathryn Coleman; Julian Cox; Mita Das; Adele Flood; Patsie Polly; Thuan Thai; Jia Lin Yang
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)
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A Systematic Framework of Virtual Laboratories Using Mobile Agent and Design Pattern Technologies
Yi-Hsung Li; Chyi-Ren Dow; Cheng-Min Lin; Sheng-Chang Chen; Fu-Wei Hsu
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 7, No. 3 (2009) pp. 26–43
Innovations in network and information technology have transformed traditional classroom lectures into new approaches that have given universities the opportunity to create a virtual laboratory. However, there is no systematic framework in existing...
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Contributing, Exchanging and Linking for Learning: Supporting Web Co-Discovery in One-to-One Environments
Chen-Chung Liu; Ping-Hsing Don; Chen-Wei Chung; Shao-Jun Lin; Gwo-Dong Chen; Baw-Jhiune Liu
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 4 (2010) pp. 126–139
While Web discovery is usually undertaken as a solitary activity, Web co-discovery may transform Web learning activities from the isolated individual search process into interactive and collaborative knowledge exploration. Recent studies have...
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The Effects of Videoconferenced Distance-Learning Instruction in a Taiwanese Company
Chin-Hung Lin; Shu-Ching Yang
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 9, No. 2 (2011) pp. 52–64
Distance learning, where instruction is given to students despite wide separations of students and teachers, is increasingly popular. Videoconferencing, which is examined in this study, is a distance learning mode of featuring real-time interaction...
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Machine Translation for Academic Purposes
Grace Hui-chin Lin; Paul Shih Chieh Chien
International Conference on TESOL and Translation 2009 (December 2009)
Due to the globalization trend and knowledge boost in the second millennium, multi-lingual translation has become a noteworthy issue. For the purposes of learning knowledge in academic fields, Machine Translation (MT) should be noticed not only...
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The Effects of Online Discussion Forum Aggressive Messages and Cognitive Distortion on Users' Negative Affect and Aggression
Yu-Tzu Chiang; Sunny S. J. Lin; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 238–245
This research is comprised of two studies designed to explore the effects of online discussion forum aggressive messages and Internet cognitive distortion on users' negative affect and aggression. The results of study 1 revealed 69 users could...
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How Learning about Scientists' Struggles Influences Students' Interest and Learning in Physics
Huang-Yao Hong; Xiaodong Lin-Siegler
Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. 104, No. 2 (May 2012) pp. 469–484
How does learning about scientists' struggles during their scientific knowledge building affect students' science learning? Two hundred and seventy-one high school students were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: (a) the struggle-oriented...
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Perceiving Affordances for Fitting through Apertures
Shaziela Ishak; Karen E. Adolph; Grace C. Lin
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Vol. 34, No. 6 (December 2008) pp. 1501–1514
Affordances--possibilities for action--are constrained by the match between actors and their environments. For motor decisions to be adaptive, affordances must be detected accurately. Three experiments examined the correspondence between motor...
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Older Adults' Acceptance of Information Technology
Lin Wang; Pei-Luen Patrick Rau; Gavriel Salvendy
Educational Gerontology Vol. 37, No. 12 (2011) pp. 1081–1099
This study investigated variables contributing to older adults' information technology acceptance through a survey, which was used to find factors explaining and predicting older adults' information technology acceptance behaviors. Four factors,...
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Investigating the Influence of Motivation on Students' Conceptual Learning Outcomes in Web-Based vs. Classroom-Based Science Teaching Contexts
Hung-Chih Yen; Hsiao-Lin Tuan; Chi-Hung Liao
Research in Science Education Vol. 41, No. 2 (March 2011) pp. 211–224
The purposes of this study were to investigate students' conceptual learning outcomes and the effect of motivation on students' conceptual learning outcomes in two different contexts: a Web-based and a classroom-based instruction, which incorporated ...
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EFL Students' Perceptions of Learning Vocabulary in a Computer-Supported Collaborative Environment
Chih-Cheng Lin; Hsin-Jung Chan; Hsien-Sheng Hsiao
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 91–99
The present study was intended to explore EFL students' perceptions of learning vocabulary collaboratively with computers. We recruited 91 eighth-graders from three intact classes in a junior high school in Taiwan, assigning one class to learning...
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Development and Implications of Technology in Reform-Based Physics Laboratories
Sufen Chen; Hao-Chang Lo; Jing-Wen Lin; Jyh-Chong Liang; Hsin-Yi Chang; Fu-Kwun Hwang; Guo-Li Chiou; Ying-Tien Wu; Silvia Wen-Yu Lee; Hsin-Kai Wu; Chia-Yu Wang; Chin-Chung Tsai
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research Vol. 8, No. 2 (2012) pp. 20113–1
Technology has been widely involved in science research. Researchers are now applying it to science education in an attempt to bring students' science activities closer to authentic science activities. The present study synthesizes the research to...
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The Effect of Static and Animated Visualization: A Perspective of Instructional Effectiveness and Efficiency
Huifen Lin; Francis M. Dwyer
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 58, No. 2 (April 2010) pp. 155–174
This study investigated the effectiveness of three different levels of enhancement strategies utilized to facilitate students' learning from static and animated visualization when taking the time-on-task into consideration. Participants were...
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An Educational Mobile Blogging System for Supporting Collaborative Learning
Yueh-Min Huang; Yu-Lin Jeng; Tien-Chi Huang
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 2 (2009) pp. 163–175
With the gradual adoption of "Web 2.0" technologies, one of key Web 2.0 technologies, blog, has become a popular and wide-accepted Web application. Although mobile device users can access the Web whenever or wherever the need arises, there is not an ...
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Mobile Learning in a Large Blended Computer Science Classroom: System Function, Pedagogies, and Their Impact on Learning
Ruimin Shen; Minjuan Wang; Wanping Gao; D Novak; Lin Tang
IEEE Transactions on Education Vol. 52, No. 4 (November 2009) pp. 538–546
The computer science classes in China's institutions of higher education often have large numbers of students. In addition, many institutions offer "blended" classes that include both on-campus and online students. These large blended classrooms...
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Library Use by Medical Students: A Comparison of Two Curricula
Kuan-nien Chen; Pei-chun Lin; Sung-Shan Chang; Hao-chang Sun
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science Vol. 43, No. 3 (September 2011) pp. 176–184
This study explored 1) whether there were any differences in the way medical students used library resources under problem-based learning (PBL) and scenario-based learning (SBL) curricula; and 2) what improvements the library could make to...
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Extended Automatic Pointing Assistive Program--A Pointing Assistance Program to Help People with Developmental Disabilities Improve Their Pointing Efficiency
Ching-Hsiang Shih; Chia-Chun Li; Ching-Tien Shih; Kun-Tsan Lin; Ching-Shui Lo
Research in Developmental Disabilities Vol. 31, No. 3 (2010) pp. 672–679
The latest research adopted software technology to improve pointing performance is through an Automatic Pointing Assistive Program (APAP). However, APAP has some limitations. This study evaluated whether two children with developmental disabilities...
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Taiwanese-American computer professionals as facilitators of their children's Webpage creation
Yu-Lin Fang
(2000) pp. 1–244
This research investigated how a group of Taiwanese-American parents facilitated their children's learning to create their Web pages at home. The participants are children and their parents. All the young children participating are Taiwanese...
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A cross case analysis of computer use among ELL university instructors in Taiwan
Wan-Lin Yang
(2012) pp. 1–317
This study explored the use of computers by Taiwanese English language learning (ELL) teachers at Colleges of Technology in Taiwan. A cross case analysis of four teachers was undertaken to examine these teachers' actions, beliefs, and the contexts...
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The Effects of Color and Background Information in Motion Visuals on Children's Memory and Comprehension
Lin Ching Chen
Selected Research and Development Presentations at the 1996 National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 1997 (1997)
This study investigates whether color and background information in motion visuals have different effects on memory and comprehension of students in various grade levels. A three-by-three factorial pretest-posttest design was used, comparing levels...
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Supporting Interaction among Participants of Online Learning Using the Knowledge Sharing Concept
Chih-Yang Chao; Shiow-Lin Hwu; Chi-Cheng Chang
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 10, No. 4 (October 2011) pp. 311–319
In education business, proper interaction is a crucial factor for learning effectiveness. However, it is difficult to successfully guide the participants to achieve the appropriate interaction in an online learning environment. That is, the...
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Software for Managing Complex Learning: Examples from an Educational Psychology Course
Daniel L. Schwartz; Sean Brophy; Xiaodong Lin; John D. Bransford
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 47, No. 2 (1999) pp. 39–59
Describes a software shell, STAR.Legacy, designed to guide attempts to help students learn from case, problem, and project-based learning. STAR.Legacy supports the integration of four types of learning environments: learner-centered, knowledge...
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A Study of Web-Based Oral Activities Enhanced by Automatic Speech Recognition for EFL College Learning
Tsuo-Lin Chiu; Hsien-Chin Liou; Yuli Yeh
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 20, No. 3 (July 2007) pp. 209–233
Recently, a promising topic in computer-assisted language learning is the application of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology for assisting learners to engage in meaningful speech interactions. Simulated real-life conversation supported by...
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Empowering Students: Using Data to Transform a Bullying Prevention and Intervention Program
Anita Young; Valerie Hardy; Christina Hamilton; Kristen Biernesser; Li-Lin Sun; Susan Niebergall
Professional School Counseling Vol. 12, No. 6 (August 2009) pp. 413–420
This article describes a middle school counseling department's journey and commitment to use data to seek more effective and efficient ways to provide comprehensive school counseling services to its diverse student population. Specifically, the...
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The Effects of Mobile Natural-Science Learning Based on the 5E Learning Cycle: A Case Study
Tzu-Chien Liu; Hsinyi Peng; Wen-Hsuan Wu; Ming-Sheng Lin
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 4 (2009) pp. 344–358
This study has three major purposes, including designing mobile natural-science learning activities that rest on the 5E Learning Cycle, examining the effects of these learning activities on students' performances of learning aquatic plants, and...
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A Review of Research on Technology-Assisted School Science Laboratories
Chia-Yu Wang; Hsin-Ka Wu; Silvia Wen-Yu Lee; Fu-Kwun Hwang; Hsin-Yi Chang; Ying-Tien Wu; Guo-Li Chiou; Sufen Chen; Jyh-Chong Liang; Jing-Wen Lin; Hao-Chang Lo; Chin-Chung Tsai
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 17, No. 2 pp. 307–320
Studies that incorporate technologies into school science laboratories have proliferated in the recent two decades. A total of 42 studies published from 1990 to 2011 that incorporated technologies to support school science laboratories are reviewed...