Chia-Chun Tsai
Biographic Data
| ID | 162569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chia-Chun Tsai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chia-Chun |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsai |
| SIGNATURE | TSAI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7744-9971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A phenomenographic analysis of undergraduates’ conceptions of generative AI-mediated learning
This phenomenographic study identified six qualitatively distinct conceptions of GenAI-mediated learning among 15 Taiwanese undergraduates through interviews: (1) answer acquisition, (2) cognitive offloading, (3) future competency development, (4) question-driven exploration, (5) critical judgment engagement, and (6) collaborative creativity. Notably, “answer acquisition” emerged as the most common conception. These conceptions form a hierarchica…
Teachers’ doings in the AI era: From transmission to relation
Hierarchical analysis of in-service teachers’ barriers to technology-integrated instruction: A review of 2000–2024 publications
Barriers to technology adoption in education have emerged as a critical issue in technology-integrated instruction, widely recognized as key factors shaping teachers’ willingness and readiness to adopt technology in classroom practice. This systematic literature review analyzed in-service teachers’ barriers to technology-integrated instruction, based on 116 empirical studies published from 2000 to 2024 in the Web of Science SSCI database. A four-…
The Effects of Integrated STEM Education on K12 Students’ Achievements: A Meta-Analysis
This meta-analysis synthesizes research findings on the effects of integrated STEM education implemented in K12 settings. The implementation fell into three categories: (1) adopting integrated STEM education, (2) using extra teaching and learning strategies to enhance integrated STEM education, and (3) using specific learning technologies to support integrated STEM education. Student learning outcomes were investigated in terms of knowledge and s…
The impact of teachers’ TK and TPACK in their composed SVVR on students’ active learning and learning engagement: A multilevel structural equation modeling analysis
This study examined the relationship among teachers’ technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK), the spherical video-based virtual reality (SVVR) they composed, and students’ active learning and learning engagement. Fifty-three teachers composed their own SVVR and implemented it in the educational field with 1,208 students. Multilevel structural equation modeling was employed to analyze this nested dataset. The findings revealed two …
Unlocking students’ creative potential in designing technological-enriched design solutions
Creativity is an important competency for talents in the twenty first century. The study examines how integrating real-world community service challenges into the secondary school STEM curriculum impacts students’ creativity and STEM content knowledge. A total of 123 secondary school students learned the challenges faced by people with visual impairments and applied their STEM knowledge to design creative solutions. Students proposed diversified …
Students’ perceptions of physical magnetic models and immersive virtual reality for chemistry learning
Physical magnetic models and immersive virtual reality (iVR) both support students’ grasp of abstract chemistry concepts, yet the distinct affordances of each remain underexplored. In this qualitative study, forty undergraduate chemistry students (twenty pairs) completed learning activities on hydrogen bonds using both magnetic models and iVR. Pre/post semi-structured interviews were transcribed and analysed using a cross-case thematic analysis, …
In search of adequate models of pedagogy
Identifying students’ metacognition patterns by their needs for cognitive closure in human-GenAI collaboration
Research trends in science education from 2018 to 2022: A systematic content analysis of publications in selected journals
Strengthening Human Epistemic Agency in the Symbiotic Learning Partnership With Generative Artificial Intelligence
This conceptual article explores shared epistemic agency between humans and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), emphasizing the need to foster active human epistemic agency through adaptive epistemic stances. We propose a framework incorporating epistemic stances in interactions with GenAI, drawing on Tsai’s (2004) work to explore the reinforcing relationship between them. The article outlines how learners’ epistemic stances affect their …
Exploring Undergraduate Students' Conceptions of Environmental Education Through Phenomenographic Analysis
The core function of science education is to equip students with scientific literacy, enabling them to understand complex environmental challenges and actively engage in proenvironmental behaviors. Therefore, understanding students' conceptions of environmental education is crucial for advancing environmental education. In this study, we explored undergraduate students' conceptions of environmental education and its relationship to approaches to …
Using learning analytics with temporal modeling to uncover the interplay of before-class video viewing engagement, motivation, and performance in an active learning context
Video learning is a crucial component in flipped learning related to learners' readiness to attend more complex face-to-face activities. However, instructors may not know students' preparedness and motivation for each class. This study intended to examine the underlying mechanism between students' before-class video-viewing engagement and performance. We investigated learners' motivation (i.e., autonomous and controlled motivation) based on self-…
Data sharing and big data in health professions education: Ottawa consensus statement and recommendations for scholarship
Changes in digital technology, increasing volume of data collection, and advances in methods have the potential to unleash the value of big data generated through the education of health professionals. Coupled with this potential are legitimate concerns about how data can be used or misused in ways that limit autonomy, equity, or harm stakeholders. This consensus statement is intended to address these issues by foregrounding the ethical imperativ…
Effects of technological issues on session evaluation in metaverse counseling: The role of psychological symptoms using HLM analysis
The main objective of this study was to examine the role of psychological symptoms in the relationship between technological issues and session evaluation within the context of metaverse counseling. Evaluating the effectiveness of sessions within virtual counseling environments and understanding how psychological factors influence clients’ sensitivity to technological issues during these sessions seemed important. Dataset comprising 148 sessions …
Co-regulation strategies and their associations with writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting
This study examined the structural relationship between learners’ co-regulation strategies and writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting. Two questionnaires about Co-Regulation Strategies (CRS) and English Writing Self-Efficacy (EWSE) were developed and administered to 219 college English language learners following six-week computer-mediated collaborative writing activities. The results of factor analysis indicat…
Diverse approaches to learning with immersive Virtual Reality identified from a systematic review
A review of using multilevel modeling in e-learning research
Improving e-learning involves various levels of supports. Accordingly, researchers usually adopt complex research designs with a multilevel structure or repeated measurements to capture a heuristic view of learners’ perceptions, comprehension, and behavior in e-learning settings. A total of 76 studies with Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) as a multilevel modeling technique in 13 major e-learning journals from January 2000 to September 2022, pub…
The mainstream and extension of contemporary virtual reality education research: Insights from a co-citation network analysis (2015–2020)
Do parents’ conceptions of learning science predict students’ approaches to learning science and their self-efficacy for learning science
Past studies have shown that students' conceptions of learning science (CLS) are related to their approaches to learning science (ALS) and to their self-efficacy for learning science (SELS), but it has not yet been studied whether parents' CLS play a role in children's ALS and SELS. This research investigated 472 pairs of Chinese high school students and their parents to identify the new predictive relationships among parents' CLS and students' A…
Harnessing the power of promising technologies to transform science education: Prospects and challenges to promote adaptive epistemic beliefs in science learning
Forming learners’ science concepts and conceptual change entails adaptive epistemic beliefs to support a high degree of interactivity within a coherent knowledge structure. Adaptive epistemic beliefs are characterized by beliefs that knowledge is uncertain and should be justified through experimentation or multiple sources dependent upon the task contexts. Thus, assessing and evaluating learners’ adaptive epistemic beliefs is a complex process th…
Ten years of augmented reality in education: A meta-analysis of (quasi-) experimental studies to investigate the impact
Augmented reality (AR) continues to show its impact in education. While systematic review and meta-analysis studies have synthesized the evidence of this impact, most of them did not differentiate how AR may foster various learning outcomes to different degrees. In this study, 134 (quasi-)experimental studies on augmented reality (AR) in education from 2012 to 2021 were reviewed to discern the impact of AR on three levels of learning outcomes, na…
A comparison of in-service teachers’ conceptions of barriers to mobile technology-integrated instruction and technology-integrated instruction
Researchers have identified three orders of barriers to probe teachers’ conceptions of technology-integrated instruction, namely extrinsic obstacles, intrinsic obstacles and the lack of design thinking. However, few studies have investigated barriers to teachers’ mobile technology-integrated instruction and compared them with the barriers to their technology-integrated instruction. This study recruited 20 in-service teachers with experience in ad…
Exploring undergraduate students’ conceptions of learning via auto‐photography: A cross‐sectional analysis
This study analysed students’ auto‐photographs with transcripts to understand their conceptions of learning and to compare the differences among different grade levels. A total of 549 Taiwanese college students took photographs and wrote accompanying textual descriptions to illustrate how they conceptualised learning. A coding checklist was developed to analyse the characteristics of the students’ auto‐photography, and showed that their main view…
Linking web-based learning self-efficacy and learning engagement in Moocs: The role of online academic hardiness
A Friendly Dog as Potential Moderator of Cardiovascular Response to Speech in Older Hypertensives
As the population ages and obesity increases, the number of older adult hypertensives is rising dramatically. Uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) increases, and reducing blood pressure (BP), lowers cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and renal morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular reactivity, defined as exaggerated cardiovascular responses to various stressors, is associated with the development and progression of HTN and associated morbidity and mort…
The Effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy on Stress Responses in Hospitalized Children
Hospitalization is a major, stressful experience for children. The stress associated with children's hospitalization may lead to negative physiological and psychological sequelae. Pediatric healthcare professionals can develop interventions to decrease children's stress during hospitalization. Although Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) frequently is used to alleviate the stress of hospitalization, little scientific evidence exists on its efficacy in …
The relationship between English language learners’ motivation and online self-regulation: A structural equation modelling approach
Elementary school teachers’ motivation toward web-based professional development, and the relationship with Internet self-efficacy and belief about web-based learning
Strengthening Human Epistemic Agency in the Symbiotic Learning Partnership With Generative Artificial Intelligence
This conceptual article explores shared epistemic agency between humans and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), emphasizing the need to foster active human epistemic agency through adaptive epistemic stances. We propose a framework incorporating epistemic stances in interactions with GenAI, drawing on Tsai’s (2004) work to explore the reinforcing relationship between them. The article outlines how learners’ epistemic stances affect their …
The relationship between Chinese university students' conceptions of language learning and their online self-regulation
Effects of technological issues on session evaluation in metaverse counseling: The role of psychological symptoms using HLM analysis
The main objective of this study was to examine the role of psychological symptoms in the relationship between technological issues and session evaluation within the context of metaverse counseling. Evaluating the effectiveness of sessions within virtual counseling environments and understanding how psychological factors influence clients’ sensitivity to technological issues during these sessions seemed important. Dataset comprising 148 sessions …
Assessing multidimensional students' perceptions of twenty-first-century learning practices
Research Trends in Science Education from 2008 to 2012: A systematic content analysis of publications in selected journals
This paper presents the third study of research trends in science education. In this review, a total of 990 papers published in the International Journal of Science Education, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and Science Education from 2008 to 2012 were analyzed. The results indicate that in the recent five years (2008-2012), the top three research topics in the published papers were those regarding the context of students' learning, …
High school students’ scientific epistemological beliefs, motivation in learning science, and their relationships: A comparative study within the Chinese culture
College students' scientific epistemological views and thinking patterns in socioscientific decision making
This study aims to test the nature of the assumption that there are relationships between scientific epistemological views (SEVs) and reasoning processes in socioscientific decision making. A mixed methodology that combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches of data collection and analysis was adopted not only to verify the assumption but also to explore the patterns of interaction between the two constructs. A total of 177 college stud…
Reinterpreting and reconstructing science: Teachers’ view changes toward the nature of science by courses of science education
The interpretation construction design model for teaching science and its applications to Internet-based instruction in Taiwan
Probing students' cognitive structures in science: The use of a flow map method coupled with a meta-listening technique
Developing a networked VRML learning system for health science education in Taiwan
The interpretation construction design model for teaching science and its applications to Internet-based instruction in Taiwan
Sensation seeking and internet dependence of Taiwanese high school adolescents
Reinterpreting and reconstructing science: Teachers’ view changes toward the nature of science by courses of science education
A Friendly Dog as Potential Moderator of Cardiovascular Response to Speech in Older Hypertensives
As the population ages and obesity increases, the number of older adult hypertensives is rising dramatically. Uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) increases, and reducing blood pressure (BP), lowers cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and renal morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular reactivity, defined as exaggerated cardiovascular responses to various stressors, is associated with the development and progression of HTN and associated morbidity and mort…
Exploring teachers’ perceived self efficacy and technological pedagogical content knowledge with respect to educational use of the World Wide Web
A context-aware ubiquitous learning environment for conducting complex science experiments
A two-tier test approach to developing location-aware mobile learning systems for natural science courses
Elementary school students' attitudes and self-efficacy of using PDAs in a ubiquitous learning context
The purpose of this study was to develop an attitude and a self-efficacy survey of using PDAs in ubiquitous learning (u-learning) environments for elementary school students. The sample of this study included 414 third-grade to sixth-grade students (age 9-12 years) in Taiwan who had experience using PDAs for u-learning. The results indicate that the students, in general, had positive attitudes and adequate self-efficacy in terms of using PDAs for…
Elementary school teachers’ motivation toward web-based professional development, and the relationship with Internet self-efficacy and belief about web-based learning
The Effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy on Stress Responses in Hospitalized Children
Hospitalization is a major, stressful experience for children. The stress associated with children's hospitalization may lead to negative physiological and psychological sequelae. Pediatric healthcare professionals can develop interventions to decrease children's stress during hospitalization. Although Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) frequently is used to alleviate the stress of hospitalization, little scientific evidence exists on its efficacy in …
College students' scientific epistemological views and thinking patterns in socioscientific decision making
This study aims to test the nature of the assumption that there are relationships between scientific epistemological views (SEVs) and reasoning processes in socioscientific decision making. A mixed methodology that combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches of data collection and analysis was adopted not only to verify the assumption but also to explore the patterns of interaction between the two constructs. A total of 177 college stud…
Students' views of the nature of science: A critical review of research
This review examines 105 empirical studies that investigate students' views of the nature of science (VNOS), effects of curricular interventions on changing students' VNOS, and relations between VNOS and demographics, majors, and learning of science. The reviewed studies can be categorized into three theoretical frameworks: the unidimension, the multidimension, and the argumentative resource frameworks. Each framework is reviewed first with regar…
Research trends in mobile and ubiquitous learning: A review of publications in selected journals from 2001 to 2010
University students' online information searching strategies in different search contexts
This study investigates the role of search context played in university students' online information searching strategies. A total of 304 university students in Taiwan were surveyed with questionnaires in which two search contexts were defined as searching for learning, and searching for daily life information. Students' online search strategies were evaluated by the "Online Information Searching Strategy Inventory" (Tsai, 2009b). The results of …
Examining preservice teachers' perceived knowledge of TPACK and cyberwellness through structural equation modeling
This study examined outcomes from an information and communication technology (ICT) course designed on the basis of the meaningful learning framework and general cyberwellness issues. It also examined the relationships among Singaporean preservice teachers' perceptions of the constructs pertaining to technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), and their perceived ability to integrate cyberwellness knowledge when designing web-related lea…
A context-aware ubiquitous learning approach to conducting scientific inquiry activities in a science park
Fostering students' scientific inquiry competence has been recognised as being an important and challenging objective of science education. To strengthen the understanding of science theories or notations, researchers have suggested conducting some learning activities in the field via operating relevant devices. In a traditional in-field scientific inquiry activity, the teacher usually lets the students operate the devices on their own after demo…
The "third"-order barrier for technology-integration instruction: Implications for teacher education
Technology integration is a major trend in contemporary education practice. When undertaking technology integration in classrooms, a first-order barrier and a second-order barrier, as proposed by Ertmer (1999), can hinder its implementation. The first-order barrier is external, such as lack of adequate access, time, training and institutional support. The second-order barrier includes teachers' personal and fundamental beliefs such as teachers' p…
Students' interpersonal perspectives on, conceptions of and approaches to learning in online peer assessment
The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore students' interpersonal perspectives (i.e., psychological safety, value diversity, trust and social interdependence ) on, conceptions of and approaches to learning in an online peer assessment activity required for creating digital artistic works. Twenty-three college students in Taiwan volunteered for interview after the assessment activity. This study found that, the more positive interperso…
High school students’ scientific epistemological beliefs, motivation in learning science, and their relationships: A comparative study within the Chinese culture
A review of using eye-tracking technology in exploring learning from 2000 to 2012
Surveying in-service preschool teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge
Many teachers are reporting that they need to develop more subject-specific applications of educational technology. However, there seems to have been a lack of theoretical frameworks to guide educators in preparing and developing in-service preschool teacher education in the area of educational technology until the recent emergence of the notion of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). This study utilizes the TPACK survey to explor…
Research Trends in Science Education from 2008 to 2012: A systematic content analysis of publications in selected journals
This paper presents the third study of research trends in science education. In this review, a total of 990 papers published in the International Journal of Science Education, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and Science Education from 2008 to 2012 were analyzed. The results indicate that in the recent five years (2008-2012), the top three research topics in the published papers were those regarding the context of students' learning, …
The development of the Conceptions of Learning Management inventory
The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire (called the Conceptions of Learning Management [COLM] inventory) to assess students' six categories of learning management (i.e. the learning of management), including learning management as ‘memorizing,’ ‘testing,’ ‘applying,’ ‘gaining higher status,’ ‘understanding’ and ‘seeing in a new way.’ Testing the scales with 428 students confirmed a six-factor structure through confirmatory factor…
Psychology (60 works) · Computer Science (59 works) · Mathematics education (47 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (28 works) · Online and Blended Learning (26 works) · World Wide Web (21 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Pedagogy (18 works) · Educational technology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works)