| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 教育學系 === 89 === ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to compare three groups of teachers on their background, computer attitude, ways of learning computer skills, and innovative teaching behavior. The first group of teachers consisted of those who had won at least one award for designing a homepage for themselves or for their school, or for advising students about the design of a website/homepage(n=134). The second group was comprised of those teachers who had homepage design experience but had not participated in or had not won any competition(n=125). The third group of teachers did not have any homepage design experience(n=181). All teachers were administered the “Innovative teaching behavior scale”, “Computer attitude Scale”, and “Ways of learning computer skills Questionnaire”.
The results showed that the award-winning teachers tend to be male teachers with science and engineering backgrounds who teach at the vocational high school level. They were also significantly more innovative in their teaching behavior than their counterparts, and significantly less anxious about, and more confident toward, computers. They showed significantly more liking for computers and perceived computers to be more useful. They worked significantly more hours and used the Internet more frequently. More of them felt received support from their school, and that the school’s computer equipment was adequate. They had more colleagues in their work team.
There are in general four ways of learning computer skills: learning by doing, attending courses/workshops conducted on campus, attending courses/workshops off campus, and learning from peers. The award-winning teachers had significantly more experiences in learning by doing and attending courses on and off campus, but not in learning from peers.
This study also selected three award-winning teachers (2 male, 1 female) for depth interviews. The results tended to validate the Quantitative Study. They did express something more delicate than the Quantitative analysis. For example, they had strong motivation to further their knowledge of using computer as a tool to improve teaching. But in practice, it is difficult for them to get away from work. The workload and the substitute teachers’ pay were only a few examples of the difficulties they faced.
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