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Wu, Cheng-Lung – Journal of International Education Research, 2015
This study aims to use the theory of planned behavior to verify undergraduates' behavioral intentions regarding their participation in aquatic sports. Undergraduates in Taiwan serve as the research subjects and a survey method employs questionnaires. A total of 200 valid questionnaires were received out of 230, thus giving a valid response rate of…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Intention, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Cheng, Kun-Hung; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Internet and Higher Education, 2013
Students' online academic help seeking (OAHS) can be facilitated by the aid of technology, but improvement in OAHS may also involve personal variables such as self-regulated learning (SRL), and "information commitments" (ICs), which are evaluative standards and strategies of online information. Accordingly, three instruments--an OAHS, an…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Self Control
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Wanless, Shannon B.; McClelland, Megan M.; Acock, Alan C.; Chen, Fu-Mei; Chen, Jo-Lin – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: Behavioral regulation (the integration of attention, working memory, and inhibitory control) is critical for school readiness and early academic achievement. In Taiwan, however, where academic success is highly valued, there is a dearth of assessments available to measure young children's behavioral regulation. The present study…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Academic Achievement, Young Children, Short Term Memory
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Shih, Shu-Shen – Elementary School Journal, 2008
In this study I examined how Taiwanese junior high school students' perceptions of autonomy support were related to their motivational characteristics, and the ability of these constructs to explain students' academic engagement. A total of 343 eighth-grade students completed a self-report survey assessing their perceptions of autonomy support…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Learning Motivation, Grade 8
Peng, Samuel S. – 1993
This paper explores the question of how and what a school can do to foster student discipline and effort. Personal experiences and observations are offered about the approaches and strategies used in schools and by parents in Taiwan, China to foster students' positive attitudes toward learning and school. This document focuses on the approaches…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Discipline, Educational Research
Lee, Ger-Bei – Moral Education Forum, 1990
Examines Taiwanese moral education, which has traditionally developed moral themes from Confucian ethics found in Chinese literature. Emphasizing altruism and self-discipline, lists moral values that primary and middle school students encounter in "Chinese Readers," the predominantly used texts. Questions how industrialization and…
Descriptors: Altruism, Civics, Confucianism, Content Analysis