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Tingting Liu; Haibin Sun – Higher Education Studies, 2025
University Physics is a foundational course offered to undergraduate students in science and engineering programs outside of physics majors and it represents a foundational discipline in science and engineering education. However, traditional University Physics instruction has many areas in need of improvement. A questionnaire for undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Science Instruction, College Science
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Xiaoqin Shi; Nini Qu; Xiaoyuan Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Spoken English Competency (SEC) remains a critical weakness in English Proficiency (EP) of Chinese college students, particularly when compared with their English competency in writing and reading. Despite years of English learning since elementary school, Chinese college students often struggle to master SEC. Although previous studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Needs, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Qing Guo; Huan Li; Sha Zhu – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Previous research has not adequately explored students' behavioral processes when addressing computational thinking (CT) problems of varying difficulty, limiting insights into students' detailed CT development characteristics. This study seeks to fill this gap by employing gamified CT items across multiple difficulty levels to calculate…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Student Behavior, Difficulty Level
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Qiuye Li; Shaorui Xu; Yushan Xiong; Wei He; Shaona Zhou – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
A significant proportion of universities throughout the world switched from conventional face-to-face course delivery to emergency remote teaching (ERT) in response to the pervasive COVID-19 outbreak. A series of challenges are faced by both teachers and students as a result of the rapid and abrupt switch to ERT. Within the context of ERT, physics…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Xu, Meidan; Williams, John P.; Gu, Jianjun – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
Pupils' attitudes towards technology have been widely discussed for over three decades, but the equally important topic of teachers' attitudes towards technology has not gained similar attention. To address this gap, the technology teachers' attitude towards technology (TTATT) scale was developed and validated by pilot testing with 140 Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Teacher Attitudes, High School Teachers
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Yu, Zhonggen – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2019
Studies on gender differences in mobile English learning are in their initial stages. College English IV, designed by a number of professors and engineers in a university in China, serves as a mobile English learning platform. This study aims to determine gender differences in cognitive loads, attitudes, and academic achievements in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Yu, Zhonggen – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
The extended constructs of technology acceptance model (TAM) have rarely been linked to psychological influence factors. This study complements for the missing link in literature through structural equation modeling and a nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test based on the data obtained from a large-scale questionnaire survey. It is concluded that (a)…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Adoption (Ideas), Self Esteem, Gender Differences
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Bao, Yukun; Xiong, Tao; Hu, Zhongyi; Kibelloh, Mboni – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2013
Reasons for contradictory findings regarding the gender moderate effect on computer self-efficacy in the adoption of e-learning/mobile learning are limited. Recognizing the multilevel nature of the computer self-efficacy (CSE), this study attempts to explore gender differences in the adoption of mobile learning, by extending the Technology…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Self Efficacy, Computer Literacy, Telecommunications
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
These proceedings contain the papers of the 14th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2017), 18-20 October 2017, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Student Journals, Diaries, Self Management