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Rotgans, Jerome I.; Schmidt, Henk G. – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
The objective of this study was to examine how individual interest and knowledge acquisition are causally related. Three hypotheses were tested using a cross-lagged panel analysis (N = 186) and two quasi-experimental studies (N = 68 and N = 108) involving students from schools in Singapore. The first hypothesis is the broadly shared standard…
Descriptors: Correlation, Quasiexperimental Design, Student Interests, Knowledge Level
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Sun, Daner; Looi, Chee-Kit; Xie, Wenting – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2017
When inquiry-based learning is designed for a collaborative context, the interactions that arise in the learning environment can become fairly complex. While the learning effectiveness of such learning environments has been reported in the literature, there have been fewer studies on the students' learning processes. To address this, the article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Secondary School Students, Concept Formation
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Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Chai, Ching Sing; Aw, Guat Poh; King, Ronnel B. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
This paper reports a design-based research (DBR) cycle of MyCLOUD (My Chinese ubiquitOUs learning Days). MyCLOUD is a seamless language learning model that addresses identified limitations of conventional Chinese language teaching, such as the decontextualized and unauthentic learning processes that usually hinder reflection and deep learning.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
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Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Hsu, Ching-Kun – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2016
This paper reports a novel, mobile-assisted, game-based learning design for Chinese character learning. In playing the "Chinese-PP" game in a 1:1 (one-device-per-student) setting, each of the 31 target students in Primary 3 (9 years old) is assigned a Chinese character component. A student may make use of his/her own and peers' character…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3