英文摘要 |
General Physics courses are a required and important subject for students of science and engineering majors in colleges and universities. However, some teaching and learning problems appear in large-enrollment teaching, such as, homework tardiness, a perfunctory mentality or even cheating behaviors; heavy workload in homework correction, no immediate feedback to students, etc. Although there are commercialized “Homework System (HWS)” abroad, the cost is high, and the questions in the homework system could not meet the domestic teaching needs. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a suitable Homework System/HWS, to meet the local needs, to explore its effectiveness, and to solve the teaching and learning problems. In this study, a total of 694 students, a professor and three teaching assistants participated in this study for 18 weeks. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were adopted. The results indicate that: (1) The HWS improves the homework efficiency and students’ learning; (2) Randomized questions and multiple answering prompt students to do the homework; (3) The HWS saves time on correcting homework leading to a more appropriate teaching interactions. We suggest to add more discriminatory questions, badge feedback mechanisms or mixed reality, etc. to the HWS in the future to deepen student’s concept and abilities in problem solvings or to facilitate self-regulated online learning. We hope this HWS will have the opportunity to be extended to the teaching contexts of engineering science and technology (STEM) subjects, so as to achieve the goals of good teaching for teachers and good learning for students. |