Stop Bugging Me: An Examination of Adolescents' Protection Behavior against Online Harassment

May O. Lwin; Benjamin Li; Rebecca P. Ang

Journal of Adolescence Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 2012) pp. 31–41

Online harassment is a widespread phenomenon with consequential implications, especially for adolescents, who tend to engage in high-risk behavior online. Through the use of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), we examine the predictors motivating...

"I miss my students": Characterizing teachers seeking connection with their students via social networking sites

Arnon Hershkovitz; Alona Forkosh-Baruch; Rebecca P. Ang

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 615–623

Teacher-student relationships are vital for well-being and academic development within schools, as well as for teachers’ professional development. As these relationships might be facilitated via social media, regulations restricting teacher-student...

Topics: Computer-Mediated Communication, improving classroom teaching, New Roles for Teachers/Learners

Normative Beliefs about Aggression as a Mediator of Narcissistic Exploitativeness and Cyberbullying

Rebecca P. Ang; Kit-Aun Tan; Abu Talib Mansor

Journal of Interpersonal Violence Vol. 26, No. 13 (September 2011) pp. 2619–2634

The current study examined normative beliefs about aggression as a mediator between narcissistic exploitativeness and cyberbullying using two Asian adolescent samples from Singapore and Malaysia. Narcissistic exploitativeness was significantly and...

GeogDL: a web-based approach to geography examination revision

Dion H. Goh; Rebecca P. Ang; Yin-Leng Theng; Ee-Peng Lim

Computers & Education Vol. 45, No. 1 (August 2005) pp. 57–73

The traditional educational approach with students as passive recipients has been the subject of criticism. A constructivist learner-centered approach towards education has been argued to produce greater internalization and application of knowledge...

Language: English

Participatory evaluation of an educational game for social skills acquisition

Jean Lee Tan; Dion Hoe-Lian Goh; Rebecca P. Ang; Vivien S. Huan

Computers & Education Vol. 64, No. 1 (May 2013) pp. 70–80

This paper reports a study conducted to formally evaluate a social problem-solving skills game during the start of the development to ensure that the desired game attributes were successfully embodied in the final game. Two methods, heuristic...

Language: English

The effectiveness and acceptance of an affective information literacy tutorial

Yan Ru Guo; Dion Hoe-Lian Goh; Brendan Luyt; Sei-Ching Joanna Sin; Rebecca P. Ang

Computers & Education Vol. 87, No. 1 (September 2015) pp. 368–384

Due to the ready access to large amounts of information afforded by the Internet, information literacy (IL) has taken on an important role. Recent developments in affective computing have provided more opportunities in the way online IL education...

Language: English

Usability and Playability Heuristics for Evaluation of an Instructional Game

Jean Lee Tan; Dion Hoe-Lian Goh; Rebecca P Ang; Vivien S Huan

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 363–373

This paper presents the Instructional Game Evaluation Framework, a design tool to help designers in gathering user data on whether instructional games with didactic focus have features that can provide users with engagement and satisfaction and at...