The Effects of Different On-line Searching Activities on High School Students' Cognitive Structures and Informal Reasoning Regarding a Socio-scientific Issue

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Title:	The Effects of Different On-line Searching Activities on High School Students' Cognitive Structures and Informal Reasoning Regarding a Socio-scientific Issue
Authors:	Wu,YT;Tsai,CC
Contributors:	網路學習科技研究所
Keywords:	SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES;SCIENCE INSTRUCTION;DECISION-MAKING;CONSTRUCTIVIST;UNDERSTANDINGS;DISCOVERY;DILEMMAS;SKILLS;LOAD
Date:	2011
Issue Date:	2012-03-27 18:57:14 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	國立中央大學
Abstract:	Learners' ability in dealing with socio-scientific issues has been highlighted in contemporary science education. This study explored the effects of different on-line searching activities on high school students' cognitive structure outcomes and informal reasoning outcomes. By using a quasi-experimental research approach, thirty-three students were assigned to a "guided searching task group", while thirty-five students were assigned to an "unguided searching task group". The treatments of this study were two different on-line searching activities. All the participants were asked to search relevant information regarding nuclear power usage on the Internet during the period of two classes (100 min). However, the students in the un-guided searching task group were asked to search freely, while those in the guided searching task group were provided with a searching guideline. The participants' cognitive structures outcomes as well as their informal reasoning outcomes regarding nuclear power usage were assessed before and after the conduct of on-line searching tasks. The results of ANCOVA revealed that the students in the guided on-line searching task group significantly outperformed their counterparts in the extent (p < 0.01) and the richness of their cognitive structures (p < 0.01). Also, they significantly outperformed their counterparts in the usage of the two information processing strategies, "comparing" (p < 0.05) and "inferring or explaining" (p < 0.05). Moreover, it was also found that the students in the guided on-line searching task group only outperformed their counterparts in their supportive argument construction (p < 0.05). In other words, the guided searching tasks did help the students obtain better cognitive structure outcomes; however, the increments on their cognitive structure outcomes may only help them to propose more supportive arguments, but their rebuttal construction (an important indicator for their reasoning quality) was not particularly improved.
Relation:	RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
Appears in Collections:	[Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology] journal & Dissertation

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