Methodological Approaches to Comparing Pedagogical Innovations Using Technology (2005)
The study of educational innovations has become increasingly important in education research as many countries around the world have embarked on education reforms that aim to change both the goals...
Development of information search expertise: research students' knowledge of databases (2005)
This paper sets out to report on a study of 12 postgraduate research students' development of information search expertise. It focuses on students' perceived importance and growth of knowledge of...
Using an iconic modelling tool to support the learning of genetics concepts (2004)
Genetics is a difficult topic as it involves abstract concepts, which are not directly observable. Studies on using simulations to support the learning of genetics have largely been confined to the...
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government launched a five-year ICT strategy in schools in late 1998. This paper reports the findings of the analysis on models of change in 18...
The Influence of Parenting on the Youth in Relation to the Impact of the Internet (2003)
Law, NWY, Yuen, HK, Chau, AWL, Lai, M
眾所周知,互聯網對青少年的成長與發展有着重要的影響。然而影響是好是壞至今還沒有定論。近期的研究顯示,影響的好壞取決於青少年的社會及心...
Difficulties in the teaching and learning of scientific concepts and theories have been well documented in many areas of science, including the physical and life sciences, over the last two decades....
Practice Characteristics that lead to 21st Century Learning Outcomes (2002)
Abstract The key research question for this study was to ask whether or not innovative teaching practices would lead to the development of learning outcomes essential for preparing the younger...
Chi (1992, 1993) Chi et al. (1994) suggests that many of the difficulties encountered by students in learning Physics concepts arise because they attribute the ontology of material substances to...
Designing CALL for learning Chinese characters (2001)
Lam, HC, Ki, WW, Law, NWY, Chung, ALS, Pun, SW, Ko, PY, ...
Abstract Despite the enormity of its quantity, printed or written forms of Chinese characters are composed from a limited number of common components. For example, the characters for pond( ), lake(...