英文摘要 |
The aim of this study was to delve into the effects of mind maps incorporated into technical high school electronics courses on students’learning motivation and achievement. It was carried out based on quasi-experimental design, recruiting 71 second-grade students from Department of Computer Science of Electrical and Electronics Engineering group (in Taipei City) public technical high school as the sample. These participants were from two classes. One class, consisting of 37 students, served as the experiemntal group and undertook electronics teaching with mind maps incorporated. The other class, comprised of 34, worked as the control group and received didactic method. This study lasted for six weeks, during which the electronics Learning Motivation Inventory (LMI) was used as the instrument to measure students’learning movitation. LMI was applied in pre-test and post-test respectively to examine whether there was a significant difference in students’learning motivation. Additionally, the semester grade for electronics in first semester of the academic year and the first monthly grade in second semester of the academic year were collected as the pre-test and post-test of students’learning achievement to investigate whether any significant difference existed. After the six-week experiment, quantitative data were analyzed via utilizing descriptive statistics and Analysis of covariance. The results of this study were as follows. First, mind maps incorporated into teaching did help students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering group in technical high school boost their learning motivation for electronics. Second, mind maps incorporated into teaching enabled students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering group in technical high school to significantly improve their learning achievement. Based on the findings, the study will provide educators and future researchers with the idea that students’learning motivation and achievement can be enhanced by incorporating mind maps into teaching. |