Web-Based: Instructional Effectiveness

摘要

Training preservice education students on the Internet requires the course to be more structured than would be required to teach the same course without an electronic component (Gillette, 1996). Education students have consistently expressed the need to see technology used by their university instructors if they are to use these tools effectively in their own teaching (Larson & Clift, 1996). Due to both a lack of suitable instruments and the importance of being able to assess web-course effectiveness, the authors developed the Web-Based Survey of Instructional Effectiveness (WebSIE) to meet this need Forty-one students enrolled in a web-based course were given the WeBSIE prior to and after the completion of the course. Pretest to posttest comparisons showed students improved in their self-reported web-based skills and attitudes in the use of the internet, integration of the internet into instruction, general computer use/attitude and using a computer for communication. Future studies need to replicate these findings and investigate the effects of the integration of technology into more and varied teacher training courses.