A Study on the Influence of Online Office Instructions on Motivation and Effects of Information Learning in Elementary School Students

摘要

In recent years, computer courses in Taiwan's elementary schools are limited to learning Microsoft Office on a single machine. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to identify the influence of Online Office Instructions on motivation and effects of information learning in elementary school students. This study also discusses differences in motivation and effects of information learning for students with different interpersonal relationships and the feasibility of applying Online Office Instruction in elementary school computer courses. "Quasi-experimental research" was adopted in this research. Four classes were chosen from the fifth grade. Two were assigned as the experiment group, learning Microsoft Office online. The other two classes served as control groups and learned Microsoft Office on a single machine. The experiment lasted for six weeks and the content of the instruction were "Basic concepts of Excel" and "Beautifying your class schedule." The research tools include "Online Office software", "Learning motivation scale", "Office learning evaluation sheet", and "interpersonal interaction scale sheet of web/real life behaviors". The participants took the "interpersonal interaction scale sheet of web/real life behaviors" first, followed by "Learning motivation scale", "Office learning evaluation sheet" as pretests. After the experiment, the subject participants took "Learning Motivation scale" and "Office learning evaluation sheet" as posttests. The results above were analyzed by using independent-samples T-test and two-way ANOVA. The results indicate that: 1. Online Office Instructions significantly improved learning motivation and learning effects of elementary school students. 2. Noticeable differences were observed in learning motivation and learning effects among students with different interpersonal relationships that received different Instruction courses. 3. Online Office learning courses proved to be feasible for elementary school computer courses.