The Design and Development of a Wireless Handheld System for Supporting Individual and Cooperative Learning Activities in the Classroom ─ A Case of Chinese Language Arts in Taiwan Senior High School

• Main Authors: Chien-Mei Chang, 張謙楣
• Other Authors: 張國恩
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83884690215500613268

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 資訊教育學系 === 94 === The main purpose of this research was to develop a wireless handheld system for supporting individual and cooperative reading activities in the Chinese language arts classroom in senior high school. By integrating traditional Chinese language arts teaching models with the learning scenarios embedding the system, we hypothesized that students’ abilities of reading comprehension and strategy use can be enhanced by more opportunities of interaction between teacher and peers, more training of using strategies, and teachers’ monitoring of students’ reading. We adopted a quasi-experimental design to verify our hypotheses. Subjects are 86 first-grade senior high school students in Taipei City. Through random assignment with the class unit, the subjects were divided into experimental group (n=43) and comparison group (n=43). The experimental group proceeded individual reading and cooperative learning activities with the wireless handheld system in the Chinese language arts classroom for eight weeks, while the comparison group did regular learning activities as usual. We draw some conclusions from the experimental results. The learning scenarios with our wireless handheld system can improve students’ ability of interpretive reading comprehension, and improve the ability of applying global reading strategies for students whose Chinese language arts are poor. Besides, according to the attitude questionnaires, although the learning scenarios with our wireless handheld system can’t increase students’ interests, they agree that the learning scenarios can prompt them to participate in group discussion.