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Liu, Shu-Chiu; Lin, Huann-shyang – Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
A draw-and-explain task and questionnaire were used to explore Taiwanese undergraduate students' mental models of the environment and whether and how they relate to their environmental affect and behavioral commitment. We found that students generally held incomplete mental models of the environment, focusing on objects rather than on processes or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Environment, Cognitive Structures
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Hung, Ya-Chen – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
The purpose of this study is to examine readers' comprehension as they develop their mental representation of reference in four sequential online texts. A total of 92 college students from three reading classes were recruited to complete the following steps in each text: (1) identify references, (2) draw the relationships between references, and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, College Students
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Wong, Wing-Kwong; Yeh, Hui-Chin – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
The major purpose of this study is to assist college students in constructing mental representation of referential resolution in a computer system. Ninety students were asked to draw mental maps indicating the relationships between references, take reading comprehension tests, and fill out open-ended questionnaire. Results showed that the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Processes, Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension