Wangda Zhu

Florida University · Educational Technology

Occupant survey is an essential method in post-occupancy evaluation (POE) to understand occupants' satisfaction and attitudes toward built environments and the relationship between occupants' experience and environmental features. However, this method has issues of recall bias, lacked contextual information, lacked continued feedback, etc. Ecologic...

The transition to online learning due to COVID-19 brought opportunities for applying Situated Learning Theory through mobile social media to enhance individual cognitive growth and community sense of belonging in online learning environments. In this study, we invited students from an Environmental Psychology course to participate in a semester-lon...

Over the past decades, Social Networking Tools (SNT) have been applied in educational settings to support students' engagement in learning communities. Previous studies suggested the positive effects of including students' voices in technological and instructional design. However, educators usually cannot revise the features of SNT as they like, wh...

It is critical to create an inclusive online learning environment for students with diverse demographic information studying in different environments, especially during the COVID‐19 pandemic when they are disconnected from peers. Guided to create an inclusive online learning community by situated learning theory and community of practice, both of...

Likert-type questions are widely used in survey in social science and produce discrete and repeated data. When plotting residuals from a linear model whose dependent variable is measured by Likert-type question, researchers might have problem observing the plot which is always with parallel lines. Adding some disturbance to the dependent variable b...

This research paper introduced a survey instrument for evaluating learning environment satisfaction from home ambient environment experience and online learning environment experience. The survey questions examined a range of ambient environment factors together with scales extracted from online learning environment survey (OLLES) (Clayton, 2007) t...

Street quality is critical to urban sustainability. Well-designed streets encourage walking behaviour and attract public activities, thus advancing the sustainability of a city as a whole. Currently, most quantificational analyses of street quality are based on two dimensional maps, using network algorithms and economic theories to calculate access...