A Study on Both the Effects of Learning WWW and the Computer Attitudes for Elementary School Students

• Main Authors: Meng-Yuan Huang, 黃孟元
• Other Authors: 黃嘉勝
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1999
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24703214359054267856

碩士 === 臺中師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 87 === [英文摘要] The purpose of this study was to explore both the effects of learning WWW and the computer attitudes for elementary school students. Both pretest and posttest were conducted in this study. 153 subjects were selected from fifth and sixth grade in Sir-Ko elementary school at Taichung County. The Computer Attitude Scale(CAS) was a pretest that administered before the WWW instruction, then the same CAS posttest was administered after the WWW instruction. The author served as a teacher and continuously conducted a WWW instruction for 8 weeks. A WWW Learning Achievement Scale (LAS) was used to assess the students'''' learning achievement after the WWW instruction. Eleven results of this study were in the following： 1. Students had good performance on both operating browser and searching data. 2. Students had bad performance on both gathering data and arranging data. 3. Sixth grade students had higher achievement of learning WWW than fifth grade students. 4. No significant difference found：(1)between boys and girls, and (2) between high computer attitude and low computer attitude regarding the achievement of learning WWW. 5. Students who had high computer attitude demonstrated more favorable computer attitudes before the WWW instruction than those had low computer attitude. 6. No significant difference found：(1)between fifth grade and sixth grade, and (2)between boys and girls regarding the computer attitudes before the WWW instruction. 7. Female students demonstrated more favorable computer attitudes after the WWW instruction than male students. 8. No significant difference found：(1)between fifth grade and sixth grade, and (2)between high computer attitude and low computer attitude regarding the computer attitudes after the WWW instruction. 9. No significant effect found among all students, fifth and sixth grade students, and male students. 10.Female students and students of low computer attitude demonstrated more favorable computer attitudes after the WWW instruction. 11.Students of high computer attitude demonstrated less favorable computer attitudes after the WWW instruction. Recommendations for this study were to consider students'''' differences among gender, grade, and computer attitudes on learning WWW. Recommendations for the future research were to replicate the study with a different population, and clarify relationships between students'''' achievement of learning WWW and other related variables.