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Haina Wu; Weijiang Gong; Guangyu Yi – Science & Education, 2024
Physical education in colleges plays an increasingly important role in cultivating high-quality innovative talent. The main factors that affect college students' approaches to learning physics remain unknown. This study examined the relationships among college engineering students' epistemic views of physics, conceptions of learning physics, and…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Physics, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
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Yoo Young Ahn – English Teaching, 2023
This study explores the perceptions of Chinese engineering-major students towards their English learning experience after taking a mandatory English composition course in an EMI college. The investigation centers on first-year students' perceptions of transitioning to EMI, with a focus on how the composition course has assisted students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Language of Instruction
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Zhong, Baichang; Si, Qiuju – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2021
Studies have indicated the importance of scaffolding in the problem-solving process, as well as the potential of integrating learning content into the troubleshooting tasks. However, few have explored in depth the learning process during troubleshooting via scaffolds while also taking students' cognitive load into account. To address this issue,…
Descriptors: Troubleshooting, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Instructional Effectiveness, Difficulty Level
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Han, Shuangmiao – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
The development of English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) at the tertiary level has been accelerated by the ever-increasing degree of higher education internationalisation. The study, based on a survey with 112 students and semi-structured interviews with 16 instructors collected at a Sino-foreign cooperative education institution in China,…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Chan, Cecilia Ka Yuk – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
Experiential learning pedagogy is taking a lead in the development of graduate attributes and educational aims as these are of prime importance for society. This paper shows a community service experiential project conducted in China. The project enabled students to serve the affected community in a post-earthquake area by applying their knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Cognitive Style, Qualitative Research, Focus Groups
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Yeh, Hui-Chin; Yang, Yu-Fen; Wong, Wing-Kwong – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
This study aims at arousing college students' metacognition in detecting lexical cohesion during online text construction as WordNet served as a lexical resource. A total of 83 students were requested to construct texts through sequences of actions identified as interaction chains in this study. Interaction chains are grouped and categorized as a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Metacognition, Interaction