The Effects of Applying Elaboration Theory of Instruction with Prezi Presentation Software in Social Studies on Elementary Students'' Learning Motivations and Learning Outcomes

• Main Authors: Yi-Hsing Chen, 陳奕杏
• Other Authors: 楊心怡
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bc9s25

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 技術及職業教育研究所 === 100 === Our attention on the elementary social study teaching is not as that of other studies. Teachers still prefer lecturing and underlining the text when teaching social studies curricula, thus making students passively sit in merely for the purpose of passing the examinations, resulting in low motivation and learning outcomes in social studies. To seek more effective instructional strategies, information technology is considered an approach which may improve teaching qualities of teachers and learning results of students. The purpose of this research was to find out the effects of applying elaboration theory of instruction with Prezi presentation software in social studies on elementary students'' learning motivations and learning outcomes. This study adopted the method of quasi-experimental research on two 6th grade classes which comprised of experimental and control groups, with 21 students in experimental group, 22 students in control group. The experimental group received the the elaboration theory of instruction with Prezi presentation software , by contrast, the control group received traditional teaching. This study lasted for six weeks. Before and after the experiment, these two groups took the Instructional Materials Motivational Scale (IMMS), and social studies midterm and final examinations as pre-and-pro test. Then the descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test and Mann-Whitney U test were used to test the research hypotheses. In contrast to traditional teaching, the results show that: 1.Using “The elaboration theory of instruction with Prezi presentation software ” could better improve elementary school students’ learning motivations. 2.Using “The elaboration theory of instruction with Prezi presentation software ” could better improve elementary school students’ learning outcomes .