A Study of the Effects of Experiential Learning Based Wilderness Survival Courses for High School Students

• Main Authors: Tan-li Tan, 鄧丹莉
• Other Authors: Chung-chi Wu Ph. D
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84207541761558448780

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 休閒運動健康系所 === 101 === The purpose of this study was to construct a set of experiential learning based wilderness survival courses and assess the effects of learning performance, lifeeffectiveness and group cohesion.Quasi -experimental as well as the pretest-posttest nonequivalent groups design were used.The participants were 285 students from one senior high school in Pingtung, including: experimental group participating in the wilderness survival courses (n=161) and control group without participating the experimental programs (n=124).The learning performance assessment questionnairesas well as scalesof “Life-effectiveness”and “group cohesion”were taken to pretest and posttest the effects. Data analysis was conducted by SPSS 18.0 for Windows by the methods of paired t-test, One-way ANCOVA and effect size. According to the results, it is found that: 1.The experimental group received more significant and positive improvement on the learning performance than the control group. 2.The experimental group received more significant and positive improvement on the life-effectiveness than the control group. 3.The experimental group received more significant and positive improvement on the group cohesion than the control group. 4.The experimental courses are welcome by the students and then upgrade the students’ learning motivations and promote the teaching reflection and growth of the researchers for them to bring feedback for the design future courses. Finally, according to research findings, this study also givessuggestions for future research and courses.