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Wu, Chao-Jung; Liu, Chia-Yu – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore how students with high- and low-prior-knowledge employed multiple representations in argumentation evaluation and generation tasks. The argumentation performance and eye-movement behaviors of 96 college students in these tasks were investigated. The number of participants who proposed complex argumentation…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Prior Learning, Persuasive Discourse, College Students
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Chiu, Mei-Shiu – Research in Science Education, 2016
The aim of this study was to identify challenges in implementing a physics-before- 10 mathematics curriculum. Obviously, students need to learn necessary mathematics skills in order to develop advanced physics knowledge. In the 2010 high school curriculum in Taiwan, however, grade 11 science students study two-dimensional motion in physics without…
Descriptors: Physics, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Difficulty Level
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Tsai, Kuei-Fang; Fu, Guopeng – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This case study provides an explanatory account on the underachievement of three gifted students studying physics in a Taiwanese university. The students' physics underachievement was diagnosed by Sato's student-problem analysis chart. These students were invited to complete a questionnaire and a follow-up interview in order to (1) understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Gifted, Underachievement
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Shieh, Ruey S.; Chang, Wheijen; Liu, Eric Zhi-Feng – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This study explored the impact of "Technology Enabled Active Learning" (TEAL) on students learning general physics, focusing on differences between genders and among various achievement levels. A quasi-experimental investigation was conducted on two semesters of courses offered in 2008. Data sources consisted of pre-tests, post-tests,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Experimental Groups, Control Groups