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Using Writing Assessment to Evaluate the Children's Understanding of Moon Phase Changes
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Hsieh, Tian-Da; Huang, Shih-Jung – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
The purpose of this study is to explore the children's understanding of moon phase changes. Study methods include qualitative and quantitative methods. The subjects of the study are 683 students from grade three to six in an elementary school in New Taipei City. This study uses the method of writing assessment to explore the ideas of elementary…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students
Grade Level Differences in High School Students' Conceptions of and Motives for Learning Science
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Wang, Ya-Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Research in Science Education, 2019
Students' conceptions of learning science and their relations with motive for learning may vary as the education level increases. This study aimed to compare the quantitative patterns in students' conceptions of learning science (COLS) and motives for learning science (MLS) across grade levels by adopting two survey instruments. A total of 768…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Instructional Program Divisions, Foreign Countries
A Cross-Grade Study Validating the Evolutionary Pathway of Student Mental Models in Electric Circuits
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Lin, Jing-Wen – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Cross-grade studies are valuable for the development of sequential curriculum. However such studies are time and resource intensive and fail to provide a clear representation to integrate different levels of representational complexity. Lin (Lin, 2006; Lin & Chiu, 2006; Lin, Chiu, & Hsu, 2006) proposed a cladistics approach in conceptual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Visualization, Foreign Countries
A Taiwanese Mandarin Main Concept Analysis (TM-MCA) for Quantification of Aphasic Oral Discourse
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Kong, Anthony Pak-Hin; Yeh, Chun-Chih – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Various quantitative systems have been proposed to examine aphasic oral narratives in English. A clinical tool for assessing discourse produced by Cantonese-speaking persons with aphasia (PWA), namely Main Concept Analysis (MCA), was developed recently for quantifying the presence, accuracy and completeness of a narrative. Similar…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Mandarin Chinese, Oral Language, Narration
The Attainment of Conservation by Visually Impaired Children in Taiwan.
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Wan-Lin, M. M.; Tait, P. E. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1987
Among results comparing attainment of the conservation concept in blind (N=30), partially sighted (N=50), and sighted (N=40) children (ages 6-15) in Taiwan were that development of partially sighted children was more like the development of sighted than blind children, and that a 1-4 year developmental lag occurred in blind children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blindness, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Content Analysis of Free-Response Narratives to Personal Meanings of Death among Chinese Children and Adolescents
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Yang, Shu Ching; Chen, Shih-Fen – Death Studies, 2006
The study explores development of the concept of death among 204 Chinese children and adolescents and analyzes the relationships between death concept development and background variables. A coding manual for content analysis of death constructs adapted from R. A. Neimeyer et al. (1983) was used to classify each construct in the paragraphs written…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Adolescents, Content Analysis, Emotional Response