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Wu, Sheng-Yi; Chen, Sherry Y.; Hou, Huei-Tse – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Concept maps can be used as a cognitive tool to assist learners' knowledge construction. However, in a concept map-based online discussion environment, studies that take into consideration learners' manipulative actions of composing concept maps, cognitive process among learners' discussion, and social knowledge construction at the same time are…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes
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Chang, Chien-ju; Luo, Ya-hui; Wu, Rosalind – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: This study examines the amount of attention to print paid by Taiwanese mothers and children during joint book reading over time and the relationship between the use of print referencing by Taiwanese mothers and the print concepts skills of their children measured at age 3;0. A total of 42 Taiwanese mother-child pairs from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention, Mothers, Children
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Lin, Vivien; Kang, Ya-Chen; Liu, Gi-Zen; Lin, Weiting – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
Educational practitioners have attempted to use online technology such as Facebook (FB) in recent years to incorporate learning into students' daily social media usage. Past studies have explored FB affordances for informal learning, with a lack of investigations on interactive patterns among course participants, especially for learners in East…
Descriptors: Social Media, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zeidler, Dana L.; Herman, Benjamin C.; Ruzek, Mitch; Linder, Anne; Lin, Shu-Sheng – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
The purpose of this investigation was to examine, from a cross-cultural perspective, students' epistemological patterns of reasoning about socioscientific issues (SSI), and to identify potential interactions of cultural and scientific identity. Mediating factors associated with students' argumentation and discourse about SSI, as well as the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Self Concept, Cross Cultural Studies, Thinking Skills
Tarrayo, Veronico N. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper looked into the interplay between language and culture based on the metatext categories utilized by the writers in three speech communities: Philippines, Iran, and Taiwan. Specifically, it answered the following subproblems: (1) What metatext categories exist in the results-and-discussion section of ESL/EFL research articles written in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Martin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is an international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades that has been conducted every four years since 1995, with the most recent assessment in 2011. PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is an international assessment of reading…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Grade 4