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Todd Campbell Shaing Kwei Wang Hui-Yin Hsu Aaron M. Duffy Paul G. Wolf 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(5):505-511
This position paper proposes the enhancement of teacher and student learning in science classrooms by tapping the enormous
potential of information communication and technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools for engaging students in scientific inquiry.
This paper serves to challenge teacher-held assumptions about students learning science ‘from technology’ with a framework
and examples of students learning science ‘with technology’. Whereas a high percentage of students are finding their way in
using ICTs outside of school, for the most part they currently are not doing so inside of school in ways that they find meaningful
and relevant to their lives. Instead, the pedagogical approaches that are most often experienced are out-of-step with how
students use ICTs outside of schools and are not supportive of learning framed by constructivism. Here we describe a theoretical
and pedagogical foundation for better connecting the two worlds of students’ lives: life in school and life outside of school.
This position paper is in response to the changing landscape of students’ lives. The position is transformative in nature
because it proposes the use of cyber-enabled resources for cultivating and leveraging students new literacy skills by learning
‘with technology’ to enhance science learning. 相似文献
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Avril Loveless 《Education and Information Technologies》2008,13(4):275-278
This special issue supports the conference ‘Valuing individual and shared learning: the role of ICT’ held by the Working Group
3.5 Informatics in Elementary Education in June 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. The Editorial describes the focus and context
of the conference. It draws attention to the wide variety of presentations by Czech colleagues, and the findings of two recent
studies of policy and initiatives in Informatics education in the Czech Republic. The selected articles are described and
represent the range of themes, including a theoretical model of teachers’ digital competence; a national study of the use
of interactive whiteboards; a study of interactivity and dialogue with digital technologies in classrooms; dialogue in student
teachers’ interactions with pupils in online environments; the use of virtual reality to support awareness of dyslexia; and
a theoretical framework for the use of mediascapes in the curriculum. 相似文献
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Perry den Brok Sibel Telli Jale Cakiroglu Ruurd Taconis Ceren Tekkaya 《Learning Environments Research》2010,13(3):187-204
The purposes of this study were to examine how Turkish students perceived their biology classroom environment, how their perceptions
compared to those of students in other countries, and what classroom learning environment profiles could be discerned in Turkish
high school biology classrooms. Data were gathered from 1,474 high school students in four inner city schools, in Bursa, Turkey.
A total of 11 biology teachers participated in the study with 52 of their classes. Data on students’ perceptions of their
learning environment were collected with the What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire. Results indicated that
Turkish classrooms were perceived as being low in terms of Teacher Support and high in terms of Task Orientation. Six distinct
classroom learning environment profiles were found: the ‘self-directed learning classroom’, ‘task-oriented cooperative learning
classroom’, ‘mainstream classroom’, ‘task-oriented individualised classroom’, ‘low-effective learning classroom’ and ‘high-effective
learning classroom’. The most common profile was the ‘mainstream classroom’ for which all WIHIC scales had medium–high scores. 相似文献
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This paper presents the systematic development of a ‘Uses and Gratification Expectancy’ (UGE) conceptual framework which is
able to predict students’ ‘Perceived e-Learning Experience. ’ It is argued that students’ UGE as regards e-learning resources
cannot be implicitly or explicitly explored without first examining underlying communication theories and learning perspectives.
As such, the theoretical framework is grounded in the confluence of theories from communication theories and learning perspectives.
The integration of Expectancy-value Theory, and the Uses and Gratification Theory serves to accommodate the suggestion that
elearning resources offer gratifications that are expected and valued by students. The key theoretical and practical assumptions
of the UGE approach are highlighted and consistently implemented in the conceptual edifice. 相似文献
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The present study investigated the satisfaction of international students. The factor analysis revealed the three factors
of ‘learning and research’, ‘living and adaptation’ and ‘Japanese language ability’. The ten variables were used to predict
the satisfaction of international students and found five significant variables in predicating the satisfaction of international
students. These were suitability of curriculum, progress of research, having a good friend, cultural adaptation and part-time
work. Among these, the suitability of the curriculum was the most significant predictor. Furthermore, the path analysis for
learning and research indicated significant mutual causal relationships between research progress and supervisor’s advice.
The level of Japanese language skills is not necessarily required to receive advice from their supervisors, although Japanese
language skills help to understand the content of classes. 相似文献
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Vanithamani Saravanan 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2005,4(2-3):97-113
‘Thinking schools’ will be sites of learning for everyone declared the Singapore Prime Minister, Goh Chok and Minister of
Education Teo Chee Hean’s in 1997 also spoke on the model of’ ‘thinking schools, learning nation’. Gardner’s model was used
for the thinking school model in Singapore, in order to develop critical and creative thinking in students. This was to be
done with the use of instructional technology as an enabling tool using a diversity of approaches including integrated project
work. This paper reports on how one school went about changing approaches to teaching and learning by implementing integrated
project work as a way of integrating the content areas of the curriculum, mathematics and science through English language,
supported by the tools of instructional technology. 相似文献
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Multiple questionnaires completed over the semester by 514 students enrolled in a first year psychology course reveal that
no single pattern of reliance on print, online, or in-person resources guarantees a high mark. Analyses of the reported and
measured frequency of use of various resources correlated against students’, performance on both individual assessments and
their final marks suggests that students employ a range of strategies in their use of class resources. They tend to rely on
their textbooks, Web-based lecture notes, and online quizzes, but their final marks are more strongly determined by their
university entrance scores than by their resource use strategy, their sex, or whether or not English is their first language.
The data suggest that students adapt their learning strategies to the resources available, with an apparent emphasis on learning
what will be assessed rather than exploring for understanding. Importantly, the results argue that investment in development
of educational technologies – and students’, use of educational technologies – must be informed by empirical data concerning
its impact on the efficiency and quality of learning. 相似文献
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Konrad J. Schönborn Susanne Bögeholz 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2009,7(5):931-955
Recent curriculum reform promotes core competencies such as desired ‘content knowledge’ and ‘communication’ for meaningful
learning in biology. Understanding in biology is demonstrated when pupils can apply acquired knowledge to new tasks. This
process requires the transfer of knowledge and the subordinate process of translation across external representations. This
study sought ten experts’ views on the role of transfer and translation processes in biology learning. Qualitative analysis
of the responses revealed six expert themes surrounding the potential challenges that learners face, and the required cognitive
abilities for transfer and translation processes. Consultation with relevant curriculum documents identified four types of
biological knowledge that students are required to develop at the secondary level. The expert themes and the knowledge types
exposed were used to determine how pupils might acquire and apply these four types of biological knowledge during learning.
Based on the findings, we argue that teaching for understanding in biology necessitates fostering ‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’
transfer (and translation) processes within learners through the integration of knowledge at different levels of biological
organization. 相似文献
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David Gijbels Gerard van de Watering Filip Dochy Piet van den Bossche 《Instructional Science》2006,34(3):213-226
Research into students’ perceptions of their learning environments reveals the impact of these perceptions on the way students
cope with these learning environments. Consequently, students’ perceptions affect the results of their learning. This study
aims to investigate whether students in a new learning environment (NLE) perceive it to be more constructivist when compared
with the perceptions students have of a conventional lecture-based environment. Using a questionnaire consisting of seven
key factors of constructivist learning environments, the results show that students in the NLE perceive it to be more constructivist
when compared to the perceptions of students in a conventional lecture-based environment. The difference was statistically
significant for four of the seven factors. According to the effect size, as measured by the d-index, the difference in perception between the two groups was greatest for the factor ‘conceptual conflicts and dilemmas’.
in final form: 31 May 2005 相似文献
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Amina Cviko Susan McKenney Joke Voogt 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2012,60(1):31-54
PictoPal is the name of a technology-rich curriculum with a focus on emergent literacy of Dutch kindergarteners. A case study
design was used to examine teacher technology integration within PictoPal along with their perceptions about teaching/learning,
technology and technology-based innovations. Observations were undertaken on pupils’ engagement and teachers’ technology integration
within PictoPal. Interviews were used to examine teachers’ perceptions. Pupils’ emergent literacy learning was examined in
a nonequivalent control quasi experimental design. Four kindergarten teachers and four classes (N = 95 pupils) participated in the use of PictoPal. The findings suggest that a high extent of technology integration is related
to: a developmental approach to teaching/learning; positive attitudes and expectations towards technology-based innovations;
and positive perceptions of support in stressful work conditions. Significant learning gains were found for the experimental
group using PictoPal. High pupil learning gains were not related to a high extent of technology integration. Senior kindergarteners
engaged to a higher extent with PictoPal than junior kindergarteners. 相似文献
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This paper shows how the patterns of variation created in the teaching were critical in helping a class of Primary 3 students
in Hong Kong to learn about the colour of light, so that the students attained conceptual rather than procedural knowledge.
A ‘Learning Study’ approach was adopted, which is a Lesson Study grounded in a particular learning theory to improve teaching
and learning. This study, based on the learning theory of Variation advanced by Marton and Booth, was premised on three types
of variation: variation in students’ ways of experiencing what is to be taught/learnt (V1), variation in teachers’ ways of
dealing with the ‘object of learning’ (V2), and the use of ‘pattern of variation’ as a guiding principle of pedagogical design
to enhance students’ learning (V3). In planning the lesson, a conscious effort was made to create relevant patterns of variation,
i.e. varying certain critical aspect(s) while keeping other aspects of the object of learning invariant in order to help students
to discern those aspects. Comparison between the results of the pre- and post-test shows that there was significant gain in
the students’ learning outcomes with respect to the intended object of learning. The findings contribute knowledge to how
the Theory of Variation can be used in practice. It also illustrates how teachers can make use of this theoretical framework
to analyze their own teaching and thereby, develop an analytical awareness of teaching and learning. 相似文献
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Teacher Learning of Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
This study examined the integration of technology enhanced formative assessment (FA) into teachers’ practice. Participants
were high school physics teachers interested in improving their use of a classroom response system (CRS) to promote FA. Data
were collected using interviews, direct classroom observations, and collaborative discussions. The physics teachers engaged
in collaborative action research (AR) to learn how to use FA and CRS to promote student and teacher learning. Data were analyzed
using open coding, cross-case analysis, and content analysis. Results from data analysis allowed researchers to construct
a model for knowledge skills necessary for the integration of technology enhanced FA into teachers’ practice. The model is
as a set of four technologies: hardware and software; methods for constructing FA items; pedagogical methods; and curriculum
integration. The model is grounded in the idea that teachers must develop these respective technologies as they interact with
the CRS (i.e., hardware and software, item construction) and their existing practice (i.e., pedagogical methods, curriculum).
Implications are that for teachers to make FA an integral part of their practice using CRS, they must: 1) engage in the four
technologies; 2) understand the nature of FA; and 3) collaborate with other interested teachers through AR. 相似文献
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Mijung Kim Heesook Yoon Young Rae Ji Jinwoong Song 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2012,10(1):71-97
With recognition of the importance of scientific literacy for the nation and yet the increasing students’ disinterest in science
through school science curriculum, the Korea Science Foundation launched an innovative program called ‘Everyday Science Class
(ESC)’ in partnership with universities and local government offices in 2003. In this work, we introduce the structure and
dynamics of the ESC program in K-district through examining (1) how everyday contexts helped learners’ perceptions and attitudes
toward science and (2) how the dynamics of learning environments effected learners’ learning process. We employed interviews
and video recording of classes for data collection. To analyze the data, we used the process of thematic coding to understand
the outcomes and effects of ESC program. The research findings showed that everyday context and a unique environment of learning
with parents in the ESC program could bring forth learners’ understandings on the connection between science and their everyday
lives and positive attitudes toward science learning. We also found that there were certain issues to be taken into account
in terms of children’s cognitive development for further development. 相似文献
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This study investigates the mechanisms of scaffolding in a synchronous network-based environment – the ‘collaborative virtual
workplace’. A theoretical ‘multi-actor’ scaffolding model was formulated. The study itself focused on the role and inter-relations
of verbal scaffolding by tutor and peers during a collaborative process of making decisions about environmental issues. The analysis drew on data from the decision-making
discussions of 31 groups – material that was saved automatically by the learning environment software. The age of the 62 students
ranged from 14 to 17. Discourse act categories were devised to describe the tutor’s and the students’ task-related, supportive
and social communicative acts. The scaffolding situation was characterized through a causal discourse act interaction approach.
Tutor and students appeared to be elaborating and replacing each other’s process scaffolding acts in the collaborative decision-making
situation. The influence of certain tutor’s and students’ inter-related scaffolding patterns on students’ decision-making
provided empirical support for the ‘multi-actor’ scaffolding model.
in final form: 12 May 2005 相似文献
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Dorit Maor 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):210-219
This paper discusses a study in progress which involves the use of a computerised research science database (Birds of the
Antarctica) and specially designed curriculum materials. The purpose of the study is to investigate the extent to which students’
inquiry skills can be facilitated by the materials. Much attention is given in the programme to developing both students’
inquiry skills and their subject-matter knowledge. Year 11 and 12 students’ knowledge and skills development are interpreted
as they interact with the computerised database and the curriculum materials. Preliminary findings about students’ abilities
and perceptions are discussed and, in particular, constraints to the development of inquiry skills and construction of understanding
are explored.
Specializations: Science education, computers in education, learning environment. 相似文献
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Keith Turvey 《Education and Information Technologies》2008,13(4):317-327
This paper argues that student teachers’ developing pedagogical approaches achieve expression within the virtual classroom
in much the same way as they would in the ‘real’ classroom; that is to say through language as the primary tool of mediation.
Whilst the advent of new communications technologies affords new arenas in which learning can take place—Virtual Learning
Environments (VLEs), online communities, Managed Learning Environments—the importance of human agency and the significance
of language remains pivotal to the effective use of such technologies. As such it is argued that student teachers need opportunities
to engage in authentic online dialogue with children as they endeavour to find their online pedagogical voice. The key findings
emerge from a case study carried out with a group of Year 3 ICT specialists on an undergraduate initial teacher education
(ITE) degree course in the UK, leading to qualified teacher status (QTS) in the primary and lower secondary phases of education.
Funding from the University of Brighton, Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP), was used to design and resource
a module, which facilitated opportunities for student teachers to engage in online learning dialogues with children from a
local primary school, having initially met with the children face-to-face. Fourteen student teachers participated in the study.
Interviews were carried out and their online dialogues with the children were analysed to establish both the issues and potential
advantages of such a situated approach to learning about the educational use of new communications technologies with children. 相似文献
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Chun-Yen Chang Ting-Kuang Yeh Chun-Yen Lin Yueh-Hsia Chang Chia-Li D. Chen 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(4):332-340
This study explored the effects of congruency between preferred and actual learning environment (PLE & ALE) perceptions on
students’ science literacy in terms of science concepts, attitudes toward science, and the understanding of the nature of
science in an innovative curriculum of High Scope Project, namely Sci-Tech Mind and Humane Heart (STMHH). A pre-/post-treatment
experiment was conducted with 34 Taiwanese tenth graders involved in this study. Participating students’ preferred learning
environment perception and pre-instruction scientific literacy were evaluated before the STMHH curriculum. Their perceptions
toward the actual STMHH learning environment and post-instruction scientific literacy were also examined after the STMHH.
Students were categorized into two groups; “preferred alignment with actual learning environment” (PAA) and “preferred discordant
with actual learning environment” (PDA), according to their PLEI and ALEI scores. The results of this study revealed that
most of the students in this study preferred learning in a classroom environment where student-centered and teacher-centered
learning environments coexisted. Furthermore, the ANCOVA analysis showed marginally statistically significant difference between
groups in terms of students’ post-test scores on scientific literacy with the students’ pre-test scores as the covariate.
As a pilot study with a small sample size aiming to probe the research direction of this problem, the result of marginally
statistically significant and approaching large sized effect magnitude is likely to implicate that the congruency between
preferred and actual learning environments on students’ scientific literacy is noteworthy. Future study of this nature appears
to merit further replications and investigations. 相似文献
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This study analyses the discourse among the teacher and the students, members of three (3) small groups, who learn in the
environment of a stand-alone computer. Two educational environments are examined: the first one, a “virtual laboratory” (Virtual
scale-DELYS) and the second one, a computer modeling environment (ModelsCreator). The ‘Virtual Scale’ environment provides
users with curriculum focused feedback and in that sense it can be categorized as directive. The ModelsCreator environment
provides users merely with a representation of their own conception of curriculum concepts, so it can be categorized as an
open-ended environment. The goal of this research is to exemplify the way the two educational software environments support
(a) the development of collective thinking in peer— and teacher-led discussion and (b) students’ autonomy. The software tools
of the “Virtual scale” along with the resources provided for the problem solving created an educational framework of hypothesis
testing. This framework did not limit the students’ contributions by directing them to give short answers. Moreover, it supported
the students’ initiatives by providing tools, representations and procedures that offered educationally meaningful feedback.
Based on the above results, we discuss a new educationally important structure of software mediation and describe the way
the two software activities resourced collective thinking and students’ initiatives. Finally, for each type of software environment,
we propose certain hypotheses for future research regarding the support of collaborative problem solving. 相似文献
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This study was set up in a Chinese university in Beijing by implementing a Flemish e-learning course in a Chinese setting.
A main feature of the e-learning environment is the asynchronous ‘task-based’ online group discussion. The purpose of the
study is to understand Chinese students’ perceptions of a collaborative e-learning environment and the factors that affect
their online performance and academic achievement. The results of the study indicate that the students had less positive perceptions
of the e-learning environment as compared to their perceptions of a more conventional environment. However, the students reported
to a higher level of preferences of peer learning, critical thinking, and problem-based learning (PBL) after one semester
e-learning experience. In addition, we examined variables that might have affected students’ performance in e-learning environments.
The results show that students with higher motivational orientations perform better in the online group discussions. 相似文献