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Chai, Ching Sing; Chin, Chee Kuen; Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling; Tan, Chee Lay – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
The notion of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) has recently emerged as a key theoretical framework that could help explain the complexity involved when teachers integrate ICT into classroom teaching. While the framework has been employed in hundreds of published studies, surveys of teachers' TPACK for specific subject matter,…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Correlation, Teacher Attitudes
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Gurcay, Deniz; Wong, Benjamin; Chai, Ching Sing – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
Beliefs about pedagogy and the use of technology affect the integration ICT in classrooms. This comparative study explores the pedagogical beliefs of pre-service physics teachers from two different cultures and examines the relationship between teachers' beliefs about constructivist and traditional teaching and their related beliefs about the use…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Chai, Ching Sing – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2010
Many current ICT-supported reform efforts demand teachers to assume the role of epistemic facilitator of knowledge construction supported by technology. It is thus important for teacher educators to understand teachers' epistemic beliefs. This qualitative study investigated seven Singaporean in-service teachers' epistemic beliefs and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
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Teo, Timothy; Chai, Ching Sing; Hung, David; Lee, Chwee Beng – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
In the current learning environments, technology is integrated in different ways. Teachers acting in the capacity of main change agents bring with them beliefs about teaching which effects their use of technology in the classroom. This study aims to examine the possible relationship between teachers' beliefs about teaching and uses of technology.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
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Lim, Cher Ping; Chai, Ching Sing – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
In this study, we observed and interviewed six teachers from two Singapore primary school classrooms. The schools were reportedly achieving high levels of computer integration as reflected in a nationwide questionnaire survey. Out of the 18 lessons that we observed, 14 lessons have incorporated some elements of constructivist teaching. However,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Teaching Methods