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Conceptions of Memorizing and Understanding in Learning, and Self-Efficacy Held by University Biology Majors
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Lin, Tzu-Chiang; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This study aims to explore Taiwanese university students' conceptions of learning biology as memorizing or as understanding, and their self-efficacy. To this end, two questionnaires were utilized to survey 293 Taiwanese university students with biology-related majors. A questionnaire for measuring students' conceptions of memorizing and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Biology
Identifying Taiwanese University Students' Physics Learning Profiles and Their Role in Physics Learning Self-Efficacy
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Lin, Tzung-Jin; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Research in Science Education, 2015
The main purposes of this study were to identify Taiwanese university students' physics learning profiles in terms of their critical conceptions of learning physics and to compare their physics learning self-efficacy with the different learning profiles. A total of 250 Taiwanese undergraduates who were majoring in physics participated in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, College Science, Physics
Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Undergraduate Student Views of the Nature of Science
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Arino de la Rubia, Leigh S.; Lin, Tzung-Jin; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
Past studies investigating university level students' views of nature of science (NOS) were relatively few and most of them were conducted in Western countries. This paper focuses upon comparing the quantitative patterns in Western (US Caucasian and African-American) and non-Western (Taiwanese) students' views of NOS (VNOS) by adopting a survey…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Cross Cultural Studies
Undergraduate Students' Conceptions of and Approaches to Learning in Biology: A Study of Their Structural Models and Gender Differences
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Chiou, Guo-Li; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
This study reports the findings of a study which examined the relationship between conceptions of learning and approaches to learning in biology. This study, which used structural equation modelling, also sorted to identify gender differences in the relationship. Two questionnaires, the Conceptions of Learning Biology (COLB) and the Approaches to…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Biology, Memorization
Exploring the Relationships between Self-Efficacy and Preference for Teacher Authority among Computer Science Majors
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Lin, Che-Li; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Su, Yi-Ching; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2013
Teacher-centered instruction has been widely adopted in college computer science classrooms and has some benefits in training computer science undergraduates. Meanwhile, student-centered contexts have been advocated to promote computer science education. How computer science learners respond to or prefer the two types of teacher authority,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students
Differences in the Scientific Epistemological Views of Undergraduate Students
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Liu, Shiang-Yao; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine whether science and non-science major students have different scientific epistemological views (SEVs). A multidimensional instrument previously developed by the authors was used to assess differences in college students' SEV of various aspects. A total of 220 freshmen (42% science and 58% non-science…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Science Teachers, Epistemology