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An Integrated Contextual and Web-Based Issue Quest Approach to Improving Students' Learning Achievements, Attitudes and Critical Thinking
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Sung, Han-Yu; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chang, Hong-Sheng – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
In the era of computer and communication technologies, fostering students' high-level thinking abilities has become an important educational objective. Engaging students in web information searching to answer a series of questions related to a target issue has been recognized as a helpful approach for promoting students' thinking processes. In…
Descriptors: Student Improvement, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Critical Thinking
Development of an Inquiry-Based Learning Support System Based on an Intelligent Knowledge Exploration Approach
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Wu, Ji-Wei; Tseng, Judy C. R.; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) is an effective approach for promoting active learning. When inquiry-based learning is incorporated into instruction, teachers provide guiding questions for students to actively explore the required knowledge in order to solve the problems. Although the World Wide Web (WWW) is a rich knowledge resource for students to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Active Learning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
The Correlates of Taiwan Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs concerning Internet Environments, Online Search Strategies, and Search Outcomes
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Tsai, Pei-Shan; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
This study aimed to explore the correlates among teachers' epistemological beliefs concerning Internet environments, their web search strategies and search outcomes. The sample of this study included 105 teachers from 63 grades 1 to 9 schools in Taiwan. The results show that the teachers with more advanced epistemological beliefs concerning…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Foreign Countries, Internet, Epistemology
A Cognitive Apprenticeship Approach to Facilitating Web-Based Collaborative Problem Solving
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Kuo, Fan-Ray; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chen, Szu-Chuang; Chen, Sherry Y. – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
Enhancing students' problem-solving abilities has been recognized as an important and challenging issue for technology-enhanced learning. Thus, previous research has attempted to address this issue by developing various mechanisms, among which a cognitive apprenticeship model can particularly enhance students' abilities. However, it is not clear…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cognitive Style, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning
An Information-Summarising Instruction Strategy for Improving the Web-Based Problem Solving Abilities of Students
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Kuo, Fan-Ray – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
As knowledge rapidly expands and accumulates, training and assessing students' information searching ability for solving problems on the Internet has become an important and challenging issue. This research aims to improve the web-based problem solving abilities of primary school students by employing an information summarising approach for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Web Based Instruction, Experimental Groups
An Auto-Scoring Mechanism for Evaluating Problem-Solving Ability in a Web-Based Learning Environment
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Chiou, Chuang-Kai; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Tseng, Judy C. R. – Computers & Education, 2009
The rapid development of computer and network technologies has attracted researchers to investigate strategies for and the effects of applying information technologies in learning activities; simultaneously, learning environments have been developed to record the learning portfolios of students seeking web information for problem-solving. Although…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Scoring, Student Evaluation