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

Ying-Tien Wu, Chin-Chung Tsai

研究成果: 雜誌貢獻期刊論文同行評審

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摘要

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 
原文英語
頁(從 - 到)771-785
頁數15
期刊Research in Science Education
41
發行號5
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2011

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