| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 數位學習與教育研究所 === 100 === The purpose of this study was to investigate role of the adaptability between verbal/imagery cognitive styles and text/pictorial searching environment in self-efficacy, searching behaviors (i.e. on-line searching behavior and searching process) and searching performance. There were seventy-four junior high students who enrolled in the course of Chinese participated in this study. The study used both quantitative and qualitative methods for data analysis. The content analysis was used to analyze the students’ on-line searching process and performance, while questionnaires were used to analyze students’ cognitive styles, self-efficacy, cognitive strategies, and on-line searching behaviors.
The result showed that (1) students’ cognitive styles adapting to the searching environment significantly predicted their self-efficacy. (2) Students’ cognitive styles adapting to the searching environment significantly predicted deep diving searching behavior, and negatively correlated to fast surfing behaviors. In addition, students with high verbal cognitive style have better searching process behaviors than those with lower verbal cognitive style in text-based searching environment, as well as students with imagery cognitive style significantly predicted pictorial searching process in pictorial searching environment. (3) Students’ self-efficacy significantly predicted deep diving searching behaviors, but did not predict searching process in text-based searching situation; on the other hand, self-efficacy can significantly predicted deep diving, pictorial searching process and pictorial with text searching process in the pictorial searching situation. (4) Self-efficacy significantly predicted pictorial searching performance in the pictorial searching environment, but did not significantly predict text searching performance in the text-based searching environment. (5) In the text-based environment, students’ searching process significantly predicted performance, and fast surfing negatively predicted performance. Although deep diving behaviors did not significantly predict searching performance, students with higher deep diving behaviors performed better than those with lower deep diving behaviors in the text-based environment. In addition, deep diving and pictorial searching process both significantly predicted searching performance in the pictorial searching environment. (6) Students’ deep diving behaviors were significantly related to their deeper cognitive strategies, but fast surfing behaviors were not related to surface cognitive strategies. Finally, implications and suggestions for teaching and future research were provided.
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