Investigating the Effectiveness of Web-based Dynamic Assessment in Seventh Grade Students’ Learning:A Case Study of the Concepts of Integer and Number Line

• Main Authors: CHU,YU-PING, 朱玉萍
• Other Authors: 王子華
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12522007037206224045

碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 教育學系碩士班 === 97 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of two different kinds of Web-based assessment- GPAM-WATA (Graduated Prompting Assessment Module of the WATA systems) and N-WBT (Normal Web-based Test) in helping seventh graders improve their mathematics learning effectiveness, misconceptions and learning interests in the topic of ‘Integers and Number Line.’ Besides, students attitudes towards GPAM-WATA are also surveyed. This study adopted the quasi-experimental designs, nonequivalent control-group design, and selected sixty students from two seven-graders classes of a public junior high school in Taoyuan County as the experimental subjects by the method of convenience sampling. We randomly assigned one class as the experimental group, GPAM-WATA group, and the other was control group, N-WBT group. These two groups equally were administered by the pretests of the learning achievement test of ‘Integers and Number Line,’ the two-tier diagnostic test of ‘Integers and Number Line,’ and the survey of interest in learning mathematics before the instructions. During the process of instructions, both of them received the same traditional instruction of ‘Integers and Number Line,’ and then two different kinds of Web-based assessment were administered to GPAM-WATA group and N-WBT group. Items in GPAM-WATA are all multiple-choice and the prompts of each items are constructed on the basis of ‘Graduated Prompting Assessment’ proposed by Campione & Brown(1985). After the instruction, all students were administered by the learning achievement test of ‘Integers and Number Line,’ the two-tier diagnostic test of ‘Integers and Number Line,’ and the survey of interest in learning mathematics. In addition, this study also interviewed some selected students. Besides, the GPAM-WATA group was also administered by the ‘Students’ Attitudes towards GPAM-WATA Questionnaire.’ The findings are: 1.Both of the groups had improved in their learning achievements of ‘Integers and Number Line.’ The learning effectiveness of GPAM-WATA group is significantly better than that of N-WBT group. 2.Both of the groups had improved in their misconceptions of ‘Integers and Number Line.’ GPAM-WATA group students performed significantly better than N-WBT group students. 3.GPAM-WATA group students’ interests in learning mathematics increased while the control group decreased. The improvement of interests in learning mathematics of GPAM-WATA group is significantly better than N-WBT group. 4.The GPAM-WATA group students held positive attitudes towards GPAM-WATA.