Electronic Cognitive Apprenticeships: Building Students' Understanding of ID

Ling Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 2019–2021

This study explored how students' understanding of instructional design developed as they participated in collaborative learning activities in an electronic apprenticeship environment during a semester-long course. Novice and advanced learners...

Topics: Instructional Design

Online Testing: Students’ Perceptions and Determinant Characteristics

Ling Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 196–199

This study focuses on students' perceptions toward online testing based on the selected characteristics of student status, types of instruction, experience with online education, and work and/or family responsibilities. A 34-item perceptions of...

Developing and Evaluating an Interactive Multimedia Instructional Tool: Learning Outcomes and User Experiences of Optometry Students

Ling Wang

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 2008) pp. 43–57

This study developed an interactive multimedia-based software program for Optics instruction, which was expected to overcome the imperfection of traditional optical labs. The researcher evaluated the effectiveness of the program through an...

Topics: Interaction, Multimedia, Evaluation, Educational Technology, Post Secondary Education, Virtual Environments

Analysis of Reading Behaviors and Miscue Patterns in Digital Running Records

Ling Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 915–920

Running records is an effective reading assessment for reading teachers to monitor reading progress of students and to diagnose reading needs in a variety of instructional settings across grade levels. An innovative app is being developed to analyze ...

Topics: faculty development, New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Impact of Vicarious Learning Experiences and Goal Setting on Preservice Teachers' Self-Efficacy for Technology Integration

Ling Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2360–2363

This pilot study was designed to explore how vicarious learning experiences and goal setting influence preservice teachers' self-efficacy for integrating technology into the classroom. In this pilot study, twenty students from the Teacher Education...

Topics: Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers, Integration

Professors’ and Students’ Perceptions of Online Learning: A Qualitative Study

Ling Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1146–1148

It is important to recognize faculty and students' attitudes, perceptions, and experiences to help faculty design and prepare an online course, to provide educators with information about recruitment, to assist students so they can achieve...

Integrating communities of practice in e-portfolio assessment: Effects and experiences of mutual assessment in an online course

Ling Wang

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2010) pp. 267–271

This study investigated the effects and experiences of a mutual assessment framework (CoPf) in an online graduate course at a mid-west university. CoPf was integrated into the course structure as an innovative application of the standard e-portfolio ...

Language: English

Teacher-Student Collaboration on Designing Instructional Multimedia Materials

Ling Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 789–794

The goal of this study was to engage students as multimedia designers and technology assistants for their non-technology discipline faculty to create instructional multimedia materials at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages (WUCL) in Taiwan. The...

A Study of the Immediate and Corrective Feedback Delivered via an Online Wireless Technology

Ling Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3705–3712

This study investigated the effect of immediate, corrective feedback delivered via an advanced online technology on the ESL teachers' instructional practice and their students' academic performance. The study used an A-B-A baseline design and the...

Vicarious Learning Experiences and Goal Setting: Impact on Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy for Technology Integration

Ling Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1817–1820

This study examined how vicarious learning experiences and goal setting influenced preservice teachers' self-efficacy for integrating technology into the classroom. Twenty students from the Teacher Education program at a Mid-western university...

Topics: Educational Technology, Integration, Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education

Using Digital Making Words Lessons as a Guided Invented Spelling Instructional Strategy

Ling Wang

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1246–1250

Invented spellings refer to incorrect attempts to spell words while writing. They are often used as indicators of children’s development of phonemic awareness. One of the guided invented spelling instructional strategies to teach phonics is Making...

Topics: Learner-centered, and self-directed learning, Game-based learning, Personalized learning environments

Project Management: From the Perspective of a Graduate Student

Ling Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 520–521

This article is about the project managing experience of the author with the VisionQuest© Project in the Educational Technology program at Purdue University where the author is pursuing her doctoral degree. The article contains three sections: (1) a ...

Topics: Educational Technology

Development of a Multimedia Computer Application to Teach Making Words Lessons

Ling Wang

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 1125–1129

Making Words is an effective instructional activity to teach phonics and spelling, in which students are guided through the process of manipulating a set of letters in sequence to construct words. A computer application is developed to help teachers ...

Topics: interactive learning environments, Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications

An Innovative App for Analysis of Invented Spellings in an Interactive Learning Environment

Ling Wang

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 29, No. 1 (January 2020) pp. 55–85

Invented spellings refer to incorrect attempts to spell words while writing, which are important indicators of children’s development of phonemic awareness. Making Words is a popular activity to teach phonics and spelling, in which students...

Bridging the cultural gap through computer-mediated cross-cultural communications: A case study of Chinese college students in Taiwan

Ai-Ling J. Wang

(1997) pp. 1–224

This qualitative study uses ethnographic techniques to describe college students from three different countries involved in a computer-mediated cross-cultural exchanges project. Students from National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan, Obirin...

The Impact of an Interactive Multimedia Instructional Tool on the Quality of Learning for Optometry Students

Ling Wang; Bai-Chuan Jiang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 2991–2993

This study will use an experimental design to investigate the effect of "virtual labs," a multimedia instructional tool, on first-year optometry students' perceptions of learning process and objective learning outcomes. A diagnostic pretest, a...

Topics: Learning Outcomes, Students, Learning Objects, Multimedia, Instructional Design

Teacher-Student Collaboration on Designing Instructional Multimedia Materials: A Case Study of Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages

Ya-chen Kao; Ling Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1059–1064

The goal of this study was to engage students as multimedia designers for their non-technology faculty to create instructional multimedia materials at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages (WUCL) in Taiwan. Through the teacher-student collaboration,...

Impact of Vicarious Learning Experiences and Goal Setting on Preservice Teachers' Self-Efficacy for Technology Integration: A Pilot Study

Ling Wang; Peggy A. Ertmer

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2003 (2003)

This pilot study was designed to explore how vicarious learning experiences and goal setting influence preservice teachers' self-efficacy for integrating technology into the classroom. Twenty undergraduate students who were enrolled in an...

Online Learning Communities: Enhancing Undergraduate Students' Acquisition of Information Skills

Noraida Dominguez-Flores; Ling Wang

Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 37, No. 6 (December 2011) pp. 495–503

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of online learning communities (OLC) on enhancing the undergraduate students' acquisition of information skills. OLC was compared with online tutorials and one-shot face-to-face sessions ...

Effects of Dual Coded Multimedia Instruction Employing Image Morphing on Learning a Logographic Language

Ling Wang; Aleka Akoyunoglou Blackwell

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 24, No. 3 (July 2015) pp. 281–313

Native speakers of alphabetic languages, which use letters governed by grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules, often find it particularly challenging to learn a logographic language whose writing system employs symbols with no direct sound-to...

Topics: computer animations, Multimedia, Learning Objects, English Language Arts, Research Methods

Internet inequality: The relationship between high school students’ Internet use in different locations and their Internet self-efficacy

Ling Zhao; Ling Zhao; Yaobin Lu; Wayne Huang; Qiuhong Wang

Computers & Education Vol. 55, No. 4 pp. 1405–1423

This research study utilized the framework of digital inequality proposed by DiMaggio and Hargittai (2001) to examine the relationships among the subdimensions of Internet inequality and their outcomes. We firstly investigated the...

Language: English

Variable-Length Computerized Adaptive Testing Using the Higher Order DINA Model

Chia-Ling Hsu; Wen-Chung Wang

Journal of Educational Measurement Vol. 52, No. 2 (2015) pp. 125–143

Cognitive diagnosis models provide profile information about a set of latent binary attributes, whereas item response models yield a summary report on a latent continuous trait. To utilize the advantages of both models, higher order cognitive...

The role of collective efficacy, cognitive quality, and task cohesion in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)

Shu-Ling Wang; Gwo-Jen Hwang

Computers & Education Vol. 58, No. 2 (February 2012) pp. 679–687

Research has suggested that CSCL environments contain fewer social context clues, resulting in various group processes, performance or motivation. This study thus attempts to explore the relationship among collective efficacy, group processes (i.e....

Language: English

Discussing the Factors Contributing to Students' Involvement in an EFL Collaborative Wiki Project

Hsiao-chien Lee; Pei-ling Wang

ReCALL Vol. 25, No. 2 (May 2013) pp. 233–249

A growing number of researchers have acknowledged the potential for using wikis in online collaborative language learning. While researchers appreciate the wikis platform for engaging students in virtual team work and authentic language learning,...

Electronic Cognitive Apprenticeships: Building Students’ Understanding of ID

Hua Bai; SungHee Park; Ling Wang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2356–2359

This study examined novice and advanced learners' perceptions of case-based collaborative learning as they participated in an electronic apprenticeship environment during a semester-long course. Novice and advanced learners analyzed a set of...

Topics: Instructional Design

The Comparative Effectiveness of Physical, Virtual, and Virtual-Physical Manipulatives on Third-Grade Students' Science Achievement and Conceptual Understanding of Evaporation and Condensation

Tzu-Ling Wang; Yi-Kuan Tseng

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education Vol. 16, No. 2 (2018) pp. 203–219

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative effectiveness of experimenting with physical manipulatives alone, virtual manipulatives alone, and virtual preceding physical manipulatives (combination environment) on third-grade students'...

Examining Novice and Advanced Learners?Perceptions of Case-Based Electronic Collaborative Learning

Hua Bai; Sung Hee Park; Ling Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2457–2462

This study explored how students?understanding of instructional design developed as they participated in collaborative learning activities in an electronic apprenticeship environment during a semester-long course. Novice and advanced learners...

Topics: Instructional Design

Developing a Criteria Set for an Online Learning Environment—From the Perspective of Higher Education Faculty

Doris Choy; Chaoyan Dong; Ling Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 367–370

Although designing an online course is a difficult task, it is one that is faced by educators almost on a daily basis. There is a lot of pressure to put one's course online and little research is available for the "best" way to do it. There are...

Topics: Faculty, Educational Technology

The Roles of Collective Task Value and Collaborative Behaviors in Collaborative Performance through Collaborative Creation in CSCL

Shu-Ling Wang; Hui-Ting Hong

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 66, No. 4 (2018) pp. 937–953

Research has suggested that self or co-regulated learning is very helpful for the development of students' autonomy, and is particularly important in online learning environments, because such non-linear environments tend to lack focus and teachers' ...

The role of feedback and self-efficacy on web-based learning: The social cognitive perspective

Shu-Ling Wang; Pei-Yi Wu

Computers & Education Vol. 51, No. 4 (December 2008) pp. 1589–1598

The social cognitive perspective of self-regulated learning suggests that effective learning is determined by the interactions among personal, behavioral, and environmental influences; particularly, high self-regulated learners hold higher...

Language: English

School context and instructional capacity: A comparative study of professional learning communities in rural and urban schools in China

Dan Wang; Jingying Wang; Hui Li; Ling Li

International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 52, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 1–9

This study examines the teaching gap between rural and urban schools in China from the perspective of teacher professional learning communities (PLCs). Drawing on in-depth interviews with 36 primary school teachers, the study finds striking...

Language: English

How digital scaffolds in games direct problem-solving behaviors

Chuen-Tsai Sun; Dai-Yi Wang; Hui-Ling Chan

Computers & Education Vol. 57, No. 3 (November 2011) pp. 2118–2125

Digital systems offer computational power and instant feedback. Game designers are using these features to create scaffolding tools to reduce player frustration. However, researchers are finding some unexpected effects of scaffolding on strategy...

Language: English

What makes them happy and curious online? An empirical study on high school students’ Internet use from a self-determination theory perspective

Ling Zhao; Yaobin Lu; Bin Wang; Wayne Huang

Computers & Education Vol. 56, No. 2 (February 2011) pp. 346–356

From a self-determination theory perspective, this study tries to investigate how perceived autonomy support, perceived relatedness and competence affect high school students’ intrinsic motivations (enjoyment and curiosity) to use the Internet, and...

Key Factors in Online Collaboration and Their Relationship to Teamwork Satisfaction

Hungwei Tseng; Heng-Yu Ku; Chien-Hsin Wang; Ling Sun

Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 10, No. 2 (2009) pp. 195–206

Online instructors today search for ways to engage students in authentic activities in their courses to create real-world learning experiences. Collaborative grouping is 1 way that instructors promote students' creativity and productivity during the ...

A 3-D Virtual Reality Model of the Sun and the Moon for E-Learning at Elementary Schools

Koun-Tem Sun; Ching-Ling Lin; Sheng-Min Wang

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education Vol. 8, No. 4 (August 2010) pp. 689–710

The relative positions of the sun, moon, and earth, their movements, and their relationships are abstract and difficult to understand astronomical concepts in elementary school science. This study proposes a three-dimensional (3-D) virtual reality ...

Variable-Length Computerized Adaptive Testing Based on Cognitive Diagnosis Models

Chia-Ling Hsu; Wen-Chung Wang; Shu-Ying Chen

Applied Psychological Measurement Vol. 37, No. 7 (October 2013) pp. 563–582

Interest in developing computerized adaptive testing (CAT) under cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) has increased recently. CAT algorithms that use a fixed-length termination rule frequently lead to different degrees of measurement precision for...

An Empirical Study of Students' Intention to Use Cloud E-Learning in Higher Education

Lillian-Yee-Kiaw Wang; Sook-Ling Lew; Siong-Hoe Lau

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 15, No. 9 (May 15, 2020) pp. 19–38

Technological progress has resulted in constant change of social structures and led to continuous evolution of attitudes and values. Thus, a timely and compre-hensive integrated technology acceptance framework was established, and factors predicting ...

Language: English

Automatic Summary Grading on Narrative Article for English Learner

Jia-Ling Koh; Han Wang; Chen-Yu Huang; Greg Lee

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 823–830

The open questions about article's summarization can evaluate whether students understand the content of an article. However, it is a time-consuming task for teachers to give feedback and score. For solving this problem, we design a system to...

Topics: research, Teachers, Evaluation, Tools & Systems, E-Learning Trends and Innovations (social learning, mobile, augmented etc.)

Application of the Socratic dialogue on corrective learning of subtraction

Kuo-En Chang; Mei-Ling Lin; Sei-Wang Chen

Computers & Education Vol. 31, No. 1 (1998) pp. 55–68

The purpose of this research is to construct a corrective learning system using the Socratic dialogue as a guide to correct mistakes in students' knowledge on the domain of subtraction. Since the cause of students' mistaken concepts relates to the...

Language: English

Motivate students’ sport behaviors with SNS & fitness App

Jia-Ling Lee; Wen-Chih Lee; Hong-Hsu Yen; Chieh-Ling Wang; Sun-Chin Yang; Pei Xuan Luo

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1458–1466

Abstract: This study was designed to motivate undergraduate students’ sport performance by using Facebook group as a learning platform, and fitness apps to track and share their fitness activities. An eight-week experiment was conducted in fall,...

Topics: interactive learning environments, improving classroom teaching, SIG: Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching, Students

Technology Leadership: Shaping Administrators' Knowledge and Skills through an Online Professional Development Course

Hua Bai; Chaoyan Dong; Mohammed Khalil; Sung Hee Park; Peggy A. Ertmer; Ling Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 482–486

This research examined changes in administrators' ideas about technology integration and technology leadership while participating in an online professional development course. Eight administrators, enrolled in a semester-long course, participated...

Topics: Administrators, Professional Development, Leadership, Change, Integration

The Role of Group Interaction in Collective Efficacy and CSCL Performance

Shu-Ling Wang; Hsien-Yuan Hsu; Sunny S. J. Lin; Gwo-Jen Hwang

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 17, No. 4 pp. 242–254

Although research has identified the importance of interaction behaviors in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), very few attempts have been made to carry out in-depth analysis of interaction behaviors. This study thus applies both...

A Joyful Classroom Learning System with Robot Learning Companion for Children to Learn Mathematics Multiplication

Chun-Wang Wei; I-Chun Hung; Ling Lee; Nian-Shing Chen

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 11–23

This research demonstrates the design of a Joyful Classroom Learning System (JCLS) with flexible, mobile and joyful features. The theoretical foundations of this research include the experiential learning theory, constructivist learning theory and...

Value Focused Association Map (VFAM) - An Alternative Learning Outcomes Presenting

Chialing Hsu; Chao-Fu Hong; Ai-Ling Wang; Tzu-Fu Chiu; Ya-Fung Chang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3270–3275

This study applied a computer system, Value Focused Association Map (VFAM) presenting the students’ essays, to understand students’ learning outcomes. Although there were many ways of presenting learning outcomes, the map provided an alternative of ...

Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness of a Nationwide Innovative Education Program on Image Display Technology

Hsiu-Ping Yueh; Tzy-Ling Chen; Li-An Chiu; San-Liang Lee; An-Bang Wang

IEEE Transactions on Education Vol. 55, No. 3 (August 2012) pp. 365–369

The study presented here explored a student evaluation of the teaching effectiveness of a nationwide innovative education program on image display technology in Taiwan. Using survey data collected through an online questionnaire system, covering 165 ...

Assisting Patients with Disabilities to Actively Perform Occupational Activities Using Battery-Free Wireless Mice to Control Environmental Stimulation

Ching-Hsiang Shih; Shu-Hui Wang; Man-Ling Chang; Ssu-Yun Kung

Research in Developmental Disabilities Vol. 33, No. 6 (2012) pp. 2221–2227

The latest studies have adopted software technology to turn the battery-free wireless mouse into a high performance object location detector using a newly developed object location detection program (OLDP). This study extended OLDP functionality to...

Application of poly(aspartic acid-citric acid) copolymer compound inhibitor as an effective and environmental agent against calcium phosphate in cooling water systems

Yu-ling Zhang; Cai-xia Zhao; Xiao-dong Liu; Wei Li; Jiao-long Wang; Zhi-guang Hu

Journal of Applied Research and Technology Vol. 14, No. 6 (December 2016) pp. 425–433

Poly(aspartic acid-citric acid) copolymer (PAC) is a new product of poly(carboxylic acid) scale inhibitor. The study aims to develop a “green” water treatment agent for calcium phosphate scale. The article compares the efficiency of three polymeric...

Language: English

Game-Based Auxiliary Training System for improving visual perceptual dysfunction in children with developmental disabilities: A proposed design and evaluation

Yee-Pay Wuang; Yu-Hsien Chiu; Yenming J. Chen; Chiu-Ping Chen; Chih-Chung Wang; Chien-Ling Huang; Tang-Meng Wu; Wen-Hsien Ho

Computers & Education Vol. 124, No. 1 (September 2018) pp. 27–36

The main purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a Game-Based Auxiliary Training System (GBATS) in special education for improving visual perceptual dysfunction in children with developmental disabilities. The GBATS application program was ...

Language: English