| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 自然科學系碩士班 === 97 === WebQuest is a task-oriented internet program module emphasizing learners’ systematic exploration. Through the design of web-page exploration, a teacher can construct a scaffold for facilitating students to establish their cognition, and to make learners achieve learning goals more effectively. In this study, the researcher participated the development of the school-based courses on Nature Science in the school, in order to explore how to design WebQuest teaching activities based on the theme of School-based Courses. In addition, this study conducted a quasi-experiment to investigate the learning effects and meta-cognition after WebQuest teaching activities. The subjects are 95 fifth graders from 4 classes in an elementary school in Taipei City. The experiment group (47 students) receives WebQuest teaching, while the control group (48 students) receives general teaching. This study adopted two research instruments including “Learning Achievement Test” and “Questionnaire on Meta-cognition”. The one-way ANCOVA is employed to test the learning effect and meta-cognition after experiment. Besides, the study surveyed the students’ thoughts and attitudes toward WebQuest learning, as well as the students’ situations of mutual appraisal during the teaching activity. Finally, the researcher engaged in reflections and discussions aiming at the progress of applying the theme of School-based Courses to develop WebQuest learning activity. The results are shown as follows:
1. When WebQuest teaching module was applied, the difference of learning achievement is significant. That is, School-based course with WebQuest form is helpful to enhance students’ performances in their learning effects.
2. Through the process of WebQuest learning activity, it would be beneficial for students to develop their monitoring and regulating ability for meta-cognition. However, it would have no influence on the ability of planning and appraisal.
3. The students show positive attitude toward WebQuest learning module, and they thought that it would help them learn much more knowledge. In addition, they hope to learn the other units with WebQuest in the future.
4. When applying School-based Courses to develop WebQuest teaching activity, teachers should use internet resources for conducting the learners to learn effectively. Also, they should work with their peers to design creative WebQuest course collaboratively.
According to the study results, we can find that it is feasible if a teacher applies WebQuest Teaching Module to the design of School-based Courses. Based on such results, the suggestions for designing WebQuest websites, teaching activities and teachers have been provided in the end, as well as the suggestions for related studies in the future.
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