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Educational applications have become more and more popular, making a profound influence on education and teaching. In the "Internet+" era, it is a problem on how to design and choose a high quality and effective educational APP. Based on the Education Technology Developers Guide, 2016 annual online education user white paper and related scholars on the educational APP research, in this paper,...
In an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of an audience response system (ARS), a mixed methods approach was developed using qualitative and quantitative questionnaire data together with direct measures such as exam and ARS performance scores. The results reveal that students' exam scores are higher for those students who answer ARS questions and that ARS performance scores are an indicator of how...
This study focuses on special requirements on MOOC adoption of Chinese higher education student group (CHESG). Firstly the factors that will affect MOOC adoption of CHESG are analyzed based on the technology adoption model (TAM). Then structural equation model is built, and ten hypotheses are proposed. In the model, the correlations between perceived usefulness, perceived reputation, willingness to...
Over the past few years, the relationship between attitudes and behavior has been of a major interest to educators. Previous studies have found varying degree of associations between attitudes, behavioral intention and perceptions and corroborate the fact that attitudes influence patterns of behavior. As computer technology is becoming pervasive in the society, researchers have attempted to explore...
With the development of economic and information technology, more and more people use mobile phone to surf the internet. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors of mobile phone data flow service adoption. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is used as a theoretical framework, and survey data are collected from 537 Chinese nationals. The results from structural...
Measurement and evaluation has always been in the center of discussion in education. The findings are used in critical decision making on the students and on the teaching profession. Students will be granted grades of performance based on this measurement that indicates their level of achievement in their learning process. However, in making correct measurement, correct measurement tool and reliable...
Evaluation method of service quality of restaurant is studied in this paper. Based on SERVQUAL, Evaluation system for restaurant is established. And empirical study is done for a restaurant in Mianyang,china. Service quality of the restaurant is evaluated by the restaurant's service quality evaluation method based on SERVQUAL. Then according to current service quality level of the restaurant, quality...
As for the analysis of reliability and validity, they are applied to screen the questions of the questionnaire and determine the suitability of the questions, especially in the educational field. However, the results obtained from the questionnaire still cannot reach a decision. Hence, the paper provides the method of entropy, which uses randomness as the starting point, to quantify the uncertain...
The rating inconsistency in subjective rating between two raters may result in the fact that the score the examinee got departs from his real ability. And artificial rerating process is both time consuming and laborious. So the author in this paper applied the Uadj Scheme and the Sadj Scheme to HSK (advanced) essay scores to examine rating errors and to compare these two schemes. The study shows that...
Statistical education researchers have attempted to investigate the affective factors that relates to students' learning outcomes in statistics. One pressing issue is how to continuously improve the teaching and learning of statistics at the tertiary level. Despite great emphasis on the importance of statistics, students are still facing difficulty in learning statistics. In this study, an attempt...
How does organizational learning affect strategic change? How does strategic change affect organizational performance? How does organizational learning influence organizational performance? Is strategic change a mediator between organizational learning and organizational performance? This article, considering strategic change as a mediator, integrates organizational learning, strategic change and...
Poverty is essentially resulted not from low income but weak wealth-building ability. From capability poverty perspective, this paper to studies the essence and measures of anti-poverty oriented standard in two aspects: the basic subsistence capacity and potential development capacity, and analyzes the differences between the ability-building orientation and income -raising orientation standards ...
Distributed video coding (DVC) technology is investigated and payed more and more attentions in wireless video applications because of characteristics of its encoder with low-complexity and decoder with high-complexity. Its coding types can be sorted the key and Wyner-Ziv frames, key frames are with conventional intra-coding mode, Wyner-Ziv frames are coded by an encoder that is composed of quantizer...
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