dc.description.abstract | Senior high school students in Taiwan are often asked to do some researches on certain topics in some disciplines to perform their learning outcomes. However, from these reports students handout, teachers are easily to find some common defects— students’ deficiencies of affluence in contents, their lack of creative thoughts derived through the learning process, and the great divide on the achievements shown among those reports written by students. Teachers also find that they are unlikely to know what the students really learned from the task given and how many efforts the students have paid on their own learning process; also, teachers find themselves not capable enough to affectively help students learn even better on their learning process.
This thesis is intended to introduce the concept of “WebQuest”, which somewhat integrate the concept of “corporative learning” and “learning portfolios”, to construct a new system to help students do their research on specific topics in some disciplines and ,therefore, enrich and upgrade their learning outcomes ( including their learning reports, of course) and diminish the leaning gaps among students.
Eighty senior high school freshwomen, in groups, are included in this experiment. By the assessment of webquests by student groups, questionnaires to individual students, and interview with both teachers and some students, the new system is found to be really helpful to enrich the affluence of contents in students’ learning outcomes, help students derive more creative thoughts on the topics they are going through, diminish the leaning gaps among students, and also help teachers know better about what the students really learn on the process. However, this system is not so overwhelmingly helpful on the upgrade of affluence in contents of student learning outcomes. Besides, students with medium or low achievement are the ones who think of this system most helpful and express their willingness to following use; while students with high achievement are not so benefited from this system.
Teachers are suggested to afford more useful resources on the internet to help students get more useful information which would affectively help their learning. On the other hand, teachers should be more experienced on the direction of students’ learning to help students even more. | en_US |