Designing ICT Training Material for Chinese Language Arts Teachers

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 601–605

The purpose of this research is to tailor the design of ICT training material to the needs of Chinese language arts teachers such that the training they receive will be conducive to effective integration of ICT into instruction. Eighteen...

Topics: Instructional Materials, Information Communication Technologies, Hardware, Software, Instructional Design

Integrating ICT in Teaching Chinese Language and Literature

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1131–1132

Eight Chinese Language and Literature teachers participated in this research to make their first attempts at integrating information and communications technologies (ICT) into curriculum. They were provided training in common application tools and...

Topics: Teachers, Information Communication Technologies, Students

Analyzing Student Performance and Attitudes Toward Textual versus Iconic Programming Languages

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Mei-Ching Yang

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 28, No. 1 (January 2009) pp. 71–89

In this study half of 52 sixth graders learned to program in MSWLogo and the other half in Drape. An analysis of students' test scores revealed that Drape (an iconic language) seemed to have a steeper learning curve than MSWLogo (a textual language)....

Topics: Computer Sciences, Human Computer Interaction, Programming, Elementary Education, Computers

The Effects of Using Guiding Worksheets to Teach Scratch Programming

Ying-Ting Ho; Janet Mei-Chuen Lin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 1642–1647

A quasi-experiment involving 115 sixth graders was conducted to investigate if the use of guiding worksheets would improve the effectiveness of learning Scratch programming. All participants did the same set of Scratch projects. However, students in ...

An Investigation into Parent-Child Collaboration in Learning Computer Programming

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Shu-Fen Liu

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 15, No. 1 (2012) pp. 162–173

A multi-case study approach was used in this study to investigate how parents and children collaborated with each other when they learned to program in MSWLogo together. Three parent-child pairs were observed directly in a five-day computer camp....

Suggestions for content selection and presentation in high school computer textbooks

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Cheng-Chih Wu

Computers & Education Vol. 48, No. 3 (April 2007) pp. 508–521

Based on the findings from reviewing 32 textbooks in the past four years for Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, we have identified common problems in the reviewed textbooks and analyzed their inadequacies. Typical problems include the Wintel bias, too...

Language: English

A Content Analysis of Programming Examples in High School Computer Textbooks in Taiwan

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Kai-Yin Lin; Cheng-Chih Wu

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 18, No. 3 (1999) pp. 225–244

In this study we examined 16 high school computer textbooks used in Taiwan with an attempt to analyze the nature and the presentation styles of programming examples in them. The presentation styles were differentiated based on the presence or...

Topics: Programming

The Design of Instructional Scratch Cards

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Ying-Fang Lin; Yin-Ting He

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 2460–2464

This paper reports on how we designed “instructional Scratch cards” to be used for teaching Scratch programming in elementary schools. Each card contains step-by-step guidance to lead students through the process of analysis, design, coding and...

Design and implementation of a two-dimensional model for ICT adoption

I-Chun Lin; Pei-Yu Wang; Janet Mei-Chuen Lin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2086–2088

This paper describes design and implementation of a two-dimensional model for teachers' Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) adoption. The model involves a technological dimension and a pedagogical dimension. It is intended for use both...

Using SimCPU in Cooperative Learning Laboratories

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Cheng-Chih Wu; Hsi-Jen Liu

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 20, No. 3 (1999) pp. 259–77

Reports research findings of an experimental design in which cooperative-learning strategies were applied to closed-lab instruction of computing concepts. SimCPU, a software package specially designed for closed-lab usage was used by 171 high school ...

Exploring potential uses of ICT in Chinese language arts instruction: eight teachers’ perspectives

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Greg C. Lee; Hsiu-Yen Chen

Computers & Education Vol. 42, No. 2 (February 2004) pp. 133–148

Eight experienced Chinese language arts teachers from a typical junior high school in Taiwan participated in this study to discuss the potential uses of information and communications technologies (ICT) in Chinese language arts instruction. After...

An Internet-Based CAL Software for Solving Trigonometric Problems

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Ponson Sun; Jie-Yong Juang

International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 275–280

This paper describes MathCAL, an Internet-based computer-assisted-learning (CAL) system that provides a distance-learning environment for learners to do exercise on math problems in an exploratory style. The design of MathCAL hinges on provision of...

MathCAL and Its Database Design

Janet Mei-Chuen Lin; Long-Hwai Huang; Kevin K. Huang; Jie-Yong Juang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1131–1136

MathCAL is a tutoring system designed for learners to practice mathematical problem solving. It is capable of offering guidance and proposing remedial tutorials automatically. MathCAL uses Petri-nets as its knowledge representation model. The static ...

Topics: Databases