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Yang, Kuay-Keng; Hong, Zuway-R.; Lee, Ling; Lin, Huann-Shyang – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2022
Background and purpose: As clear mechanisms for motivating and engaging teachers in learning and working collaboratively with colleagues are scarce, this study explored supportive conditions of promoting teacher professional development on inquiry-based science teaching in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) and examined how teachers'…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Cheng, Li-Ting; Smith, Thomas J.; Hong, Zuway-R.; Lin, Huann-shyang – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This study examined the roles of gender and STEM major status as predictors of performance in formulating a research question and designing experiment among 70 undergraduate Taiwanese college students participating in inquiry-based learning (IBL). Student participants in this study were involved in discrepant demonstrations of scientific events…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Gender Differences, STEM Education, Majors (Students)
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Wang, Hsin-Hui; Lin, Huann-shyang; Chen, Ya-Chun; Pan, Yi-Ting; Hong, Zuway-R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This study explored how specific inquiry-related learning activities were related to student enjoyment of learning science and intended choice of future STEM career. Analysis of Taiwan and Australia PISA 2015 data revealed that three activities, namely, "debating and planning experiments, drawing conclusions and doing hands-on experiments,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
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Chen, Hsiang-Ting; Wang, Hsin-Hui; Lin, Huann-Shyang; Lawrenz, Frances P.; Hong, Zuway-R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
This longitudinal study explores the effects of an after-school, inquiry-based science intervention on improving low-achieving elementary school children's affective perceptions of learning science (APLS) and positive thinking. Thirty-nine low-achieving children nominated by their teachers attended a three-semester intervention and formed the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, After School Programs, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Hong, Zuway-R.; Lin, Huann-Shyang; Chen, Hsiang-Ting; Wang, Hsin-Hui; Lin, Chia-Jung – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of aesthetic science activities on improving elementary school at-risk families' children's positive thinking, attitudes toward science, and decreasing their anxiety about learning science. Thirty-six 4th-grade children from at-risk families volunteered to participate in a 12-week intervention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Activities, Aesthetics, Elementary School Students