National Taichung University of Education

Implementing multitiered system of supports in inclusive preschool education: advantages and challenges in Taiwan

Although Taiwan's inclusive preschool education system has high enrolment rates for children with disabilities or developmental delays, teachers and caregivers continue to encounter challenges related to resource allocation and itinerant support. Through a conceptual analysis, th...

Socratic, Artifact-Gated Generative AI Scaffolding in a 6E Inquiry Unit: A Clustered Quasi-Experiment in Elementary Students’ Computational Thinking

Open-ended computational thinking (CT) inquiry challenges one teacher to support learners progressing at different rates. This clustered quasi-experiment evaluated TALPer, a generative-AI tutor providing student-initiated, artifact-contingent Socratic prompts during a six-lesson...

Witnessing the Rise and Fall: The Development of Artistic Swimming Clubs in Taiwan

While international success in Japan, China, and South Korea is rooted in centralized national organizational governance, Taiwan followed a distinctive trajectory defined by private associations and market mechanisms. A historical analysis of artistic swimming in Taiwan from 1999...