The Learning Styles on Web Searching Behaviors And Strategies

• Main Authors: Chao-Chieh Wang, 王昭傑
• Other Authors: Chuen-Tsai Sun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35741452411623093380

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 理學院碩士在職專班網路學習學程 === 95 === Web searching is a process of behaving from facing a learning task to finishing the task, and also a process of learning. Web searching itself is a complex cognitive process and has variances among individuals. Hence, different people will implement various searching strategies even though they are doing the same task. Because of the variances among individuals, the different strategies may have significant impacts on the results of searching. This research focuses the individuals’ differences on learning styles and explores the distinctions and findings on searching strategies and behaviors for students with different learning styles. The subjects of this research were the six graders at some elementary school in Hsinchu County. First, a learning style survey was conducted. Secondly, the students were given open tasks to search on web. Finally, statistical analyses of five behavior indicators in their searching processes and of the use of strategies after their searching were made. The main findings are: 1.Among the students, those who are the adaptation learning style or the comprehension learning style have better performances in their searching behaviors and strategies. 2.The connections between web searching behaviors and strategies: those who are intuitive browsers would use more function keys, adopt the analytical searching strategy, and have higher numbers in inquiring questions and websites searched. Those who adopt the browsing known website strategy would tend to use more inquiring questions and search more homepages, but inquire less on other information.