The Influence of Using POE Teaching Strategy in 7th Grade Ecology Unit on Students’ Concept understanding and Perceptions of Learning Environment and Motivation

• Main Author: 田佳立
• Other Authors: Iris-Chu Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37189392128936338290

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 科學教育研究所 === 96 === The Influence of Using POE Teaching Strategy in 7th Grade Ecology Unit on Students’ Concept understanding and Perceptions of Learning Environment and Motivation Chia-Li Tien Abstract This study aims to investigate the influence of using POE teaching strategy in 7th grade ecology unit on students’ concept understanding and the perceptions of learning environment and motivation for learning. The results indicate that POE teaching strategy has positive influence on student’s perceptions of self-efficiency, performance goal, teacher support, student participation, exploration, work orientation, and cooperation. The results from the open-ended questionnaire indicate that students increase their interest to the class, their knowledge on ecology and their ability to design the experiment, and the contents are not so difficult for them. However, some students have negative feeling towards the POE teaching strategy such as it is not easy to apply the knowledge to daily life, some contents are not easy to understand, and the operating process for POE takes time. When compare the influence according to different achievement levels, the students with medium level achievement have the most positive change. The study indicates that using POE teaching strategy in the ecology unit have positive results on concept understanding, and the perceptions on the learning environment and students’ motivation on learning.