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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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University Students' Online Academic Help Seeking: The Role of Self-Regulation and Information Commitments
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Cheng, Kun-Hung; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Internet and Higher Education, 2013
Students' online academic help seeking (OAHS) can be facilitated by the aid of technology, but improvement in OAHS may also involve personal variables such as self-regulated learning (SRL), and "information commitments" (ICs), which are evaluative standards and strategies of online information. Accordingly, three instruments--an OAHS, an SRL, and…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Self Control
College Students' Experience of Online Argumentation: Conceptions, Approaches and the Conditions of Using Question Prompts
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Tsai, Pei-Shan; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Internet and Higher Education, 2013
This study is an initial attempt to explore the relationship between conditions, students' conceptions of and approaches to online argumentation. A total of 45 college students participated in the study. Twenty-one students participated in online argumentation activities with no cognitive tool (in the control condition), and 24 students undertook…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Student Experience, Educational Technology
The Correlates of Taiwan Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs concerning Internet Environments, Online Search Strategies, and Search Outcomes
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Tsai, Pei-Shan; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
This study aimed to explore the correlates among teachers' epistemological beliefs concerning Internet environments, their web search strategies and search outcomes. The sample of this study included 105 teachers from 63 grades 1 to 9 schools in Taiwan. The results show that the teachers with more advanced epistemological beliefs concerning…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Foreign Countries, Internet, Epistemology
An Investigation of Taiwan University Students' Perceptions of Online Academic Help Seeking, and Their Web-Based Learning Self-Efficacy
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Cheng, Kun-Hung; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
This study was conducted to investigate Taiwan University students' perceptions (including experience, confidence and preference) of online academic help seeking (OAHS) and students' level of web-based learning self-efficacy (WLSE). Two instruments, OAHS questionnaire, consisting of "information searching," "formal" and "informal query" scales,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Help Seeking, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
College Students' Conceptions of Context-Aware Ubiquitous Learning: A Phenomenographic Analysis
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Tsai, Pei-Shan; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Hwang, Gwo-Haur – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore students' conceptions of context-aware ubiquitous learning (u-learning). The students participated in a u-learning exercise using PDAs equipped with RFID readers. The data were collected from individual interviews with each of the students by a trained researcher, and the responses of the interviewees were…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Epistemology, Definitions
Learning through Science Writing via Online Peer Assessment in a College Biology Course
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Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
This study used an online peer assessment activity to help 47 college students to learn biology through writing. Each student submitted a biology writing report to an online system and then experienced three rounds of peer assessment. During the online peer assessment process, self, peer and expert evaluation scores for the writing were gathered…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Validity, Biology, Science Instruction
Taiwan College Students' Self-Efficacy and Motivation of Learning in Online Peer Assessment Environments
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Tseng, Sheng-Chau; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
Online peer assessment is an innovative evaluation method that has caught both educators' and practitioners' attention in recent years. The purpose of this study was to develop relevant questionnaires for teachers to understand student self-efficacy and motivation in online peer assessment learning environments. A total of 205 college students…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries