英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to construct a set of experiential learning based wilderness survival courses and to evaluate the effects of learning performance, life- effectiveness and group cohesion. The quasi-experimental design and the nonequivalent group pretest-posttest were used. Participants were 285 students from one senior high school in Pingtung county, including: experimental group participating in the wilderness survival courses (n=161) and control group without participating the experimental programs (n=124). The learning performance questionnaires as well as scales of “Life-effectiveness” and “group cohesion” were used to pre and post-test the effects. Data analysis was conducted by SPSS 17.0 for Windows by the methods of paired t-test, One-way ANCOVA and effect size. According to the results, it is found that: 1) the experimental group had more significantly positive improvement on the learning performance than the control group; 2) the experimental group received more significantly positive improvement on the life-effectiveness than the control group; 3) the experimental group received more significantly positive improvement on the group cohesion than the control group. In the end, according to research findings, the researchers also gave suggestions for future research and course design. |