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Hsiao-Ching Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation's idea began with my class notes and questions in the statistics courses I attended in my doctoral program. These notes and questions originally were about the concepts of the bell shape, statistical distribution, and hypothesis testing. They then became my inquiries of p-values because what I learned in the courses about how the…
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, Statistics Education, Females, Indigenous Populations
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Weng, Cathy; Weng, Apollo; Tsai, Kevin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
The primary purpose of this study was to uncover determines of students' intention to adopt online teaching evaluation at the end of semester by proposing a research model based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The second purpose was to investigate the efficacy of the theory for predicting such intention. Besides users' attitude and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Questionnaires, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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Chou, Mu-hsuan – Higher Education Studies, 2013
Rating scales have been used as a major assessment instrument to measure language performance on oral tasks. The present research concerned, under the same rating criteria, how far teachers interpreted students' speaking scores by using two different types of rating method, and how far students could benefit from the feedback of the description of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Pan, Ching-Ying; Wu, Hui-Yi – English Language Teaching, 2013
This experimental study aims to investigate the effects of using cooperative learning to enhance the English reading comprehension and learning motivation of EFL freshmen by comparing the cooperative learning instruction and traditional lecture instruction. This experiment was implemented in a Freshman English Reading course, a two credit course,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Lai, Horng-Ji; Wu, Ming-Lieh; Li, Ai-Tzu – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
This study investigated the informal learning experiences expressed by Taiwanese adults (aged from 16 to 97) and examined their involvement related to selected socio-demographic characteristics. Data of the 2008 Adult Education Participation Survey in Taiwan and Fujian Area were used to look at different variables of adults' demographic…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Background
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Tsay, Ming-Yueh – Journal of Documentation, 1999
Describes a study conducted in a Taiwan hospital library that explored the in-house use age distribution of journals, their citation age distribution, and the difference between them. Discusses use of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, which showed that the use age distribution does not fit the citation age distribution. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Foreign Countries, Hospital Libraries, Scholarly Journals