英文摘要 |
The aims of this study was to examine on how to implement inquiry teaching by integrating the network resources for middle school biology teaching, and assessing its effectiveness on students’ learning. An action research was adopted in the study. The researcher, acts as the teacher, invited her class with thirty students to participate in this study. A 5E (Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation) inquiry teaching model is used in the leassons. The teaching units includes “How does the plant obtain the nutrient,” “Material transportation in the plant,” and “Human body's blood circulation system.” The teaching modules, named “plant transportation and nutrient” and “circulation system,” in the Science Education Web supported by Ministry of Education of Taiwan (http://science.edu.tw) were selected as web resources for the learning units. Collection of data include teacher’s reflection journals on teaching, videos of the class, student's work sheets, the interview transcripts, students achievement tests scores, student’s response on “the questionnaire of computer-assisted learning & environment scale.” The findings showed that the problems of using web resource to implement inquiry teaching include limitation of computer lab uses, insufficient computer skills and inquiry skills of students, and in-experience of using web resource by students. However, we found that students’ achievement had been significantly improved after the teaching; and student’s motivation toward computer-assisted learning had been significantly improved while no significant improvement in other scales of the questionnaire. |