Comparison Studies on Teaching OpenOffice and Microsoft Office to Elementary Students: Effects and Transfer of Learning

• Main Authors: Yi-Bin Chang, 張義斌
• Other Authors: Cheng-Chang Jeng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/th4gpu

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 教育研究所 === 95 === To reconcile the teaching with strategy and materials and control the other variables that could affect learning, developed lessons for teaching OpenOffice Writer and Microsoft Word as well as Impress and PowerPoint to 3rd graders were based on generic instructional design model ADDIE. Based on the instructional designs, the software instructions were given to 55 volunteer 3rd graders. The students were divided into two groups according to a quasi-experimental design. One group consisted of 28 students received 10 hours of Word and 10 hours of PowerPoint instructions, while the other group consisted of 27 students received 10 hours of Writer and 10 hours of Impress instructions. The experimental instruction of each group was done for a period of one week. The results of this study are as the following: 1) There were no significances of learning effects between Writer and Word groups; 2) The learning effects between Writer and Word groups had no significant differences across gender; 3) There was positive transfer of learning between the two word processing software; 4) The group using PowerPoint performed significantly better than the group using Impress; 5) No significant differences were found in students learning with PowerPoint across gender, but male students performed significantly better than female students in learning with Impress; 6) There was positive transfer of learning from Impress to PowerPoint, but there was negative transfer of learning from PowerPoint to Impress. It was suggested that the interface design of PowerPoint is more suitable to beginners than the interface design of Impress.