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Jin, Haiyue; Wong, Khoon Yoong – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
Mathematics curricula from many countries have emphasized conceptual understanding as more important than the mastery of isolated skills. However, researchers and educators have used different measures to access students' conceptual understanding of mathematics. Thus, it seems necessary to further explore whether and to what extent different…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Grade 8
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Shasha Chen; Shaohui Chi; Zuhao Wang – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
Interdisciplinary thinking is critical for equipping students to apply scientific knowledge and tackle societal challenges across various disciplines, which has been recognized as a key objective of twenty-first century science education. However, research on effective interdisciplinary assessment in secondary school science education is still…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Grade 7
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Wang, Botao; Zhou, Huan; Duan, Haijun; Wang, Xuewei; Song, Baoping; Hu, Weiping – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
The present study aimed to explore the neural-related mechanism of the creative evaluation process in individual with different levels of creativity. The time course of evaluation process for creative objects was monitored by event-related potentials (EPRs). Forty-five participants were divided into the high-creativity performance (HCP) group and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Task Analysis
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Jia, Lin; Cai, Jianyong; Wang, Jianqin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
In Dynamic Assessment (DA), the observation that individuals respond differently to support, or mediation, is important for diagnoses of development. The concept of learning potential refers to openness to mediation, i.e., the extent of change to performance when mediation is available, which may suggest learners will need less overall instruction…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zou, Di; Wang, Minhong; Xie, Haoran; Cheng, Gary; Wang, Fu Lee; Lee, Lap-Kei – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Personalized learning has become an important and powerful paradigm catering for various needs, styles, preferences, and modes of learning. Several methods including task recommendations and path planning have recently emerged to effectively implement personalized learning using e-learning systems. The literature shows that the use of task…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liu, Juan – English Language Teaching, 2017
Language is an indispensable part of culture, and it is also a major carrier and medium of culture communication and transmission. Learning a foreign language means not only learning basic language knowledge, training and improving the ability of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating, but enriching the cross-cultural awareness,…
Descriptors: College English, Teaching Methods, Integrated Curriculum, College Second Language Programs
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Zhao, Wen; Wang, Boran; Coniam, David; Xie, Bingxue – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background: The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001) has, over the past decade, come to be widely used as a reference tool for teaching, learning and assessment (Alderson 2002; North 2014). The focus of the current study is on scaling the China Standards of English (CSE) vocabulary descriptors for College English…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Guidelines, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Cheng, Liying; Wu, Yongfei; Liu, Xiaoqian – Language Testing in Asia, 2015
Classroom assessment tasks and environment are central to supporting student learning, yet are under-studied at the tertiary level, especially in China's test-driven culture. This study explores the relationship between students' perceptions of assessment tasks and classroom assessment environment, within the university context of teaching English…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Pan, Yue-Juan; Liu, Yan – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This study developed a standardised mediated assessment to measure young children's mathematical ability in reasoning, abstraction and representation in number, computation, quantity, shape and relationship through six tasks with four levels. The percentage distribution of children at four levels on the tasks showed that the tiered mediations…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Program Effectiveness, Mathematical Aptitude
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Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy; Sha, Shuying – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
This study explored the development of meta-cognitive knowledge and control, the relationship between the two constructs, the types of strategy knowledge Chinese students consider valuable and comparisons with US children's knowledge of strategies at the third-grade level. One hundred and twenty students were randomly sampled from third-, fifth-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Chinese, Grade 3
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Hill, Yao Zhang; Tschudi, Stephen L. – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2011
This paper brings task-based language teaching (TBLT) curriculum development principles into the blended learning context, presenting processes and outcomes from a project to develop a task-based thematic unit--asking and giving directions--in a hybrid web-based university-level class focused on listening and speaking skills in Mandarin Chinese.…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction