The Evaluation of Learning Outcomes for the Different Amounts of Operational Procedure Instruction - Take "Teaching for EXCEL Software of Skill Learning" for Example

• Main Authors: Hsu, Shu-Fen, 徐淑芬
• Other Authors: Chen, Deng-Jyi
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00560547179999571898

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 理學院科技與數位學習學程 === 98 === Make a broad survey of domestic vocational education, the key point of computer teaching put much stress on the software application teaching. However, making the related application software known by students and getting professional certificates are part of standard vocational education. And leraning of software application operation belongs to the part of procedural knowledge learning; procedural knowledge learning requires the operation of short-term memory. But there is a limit about short-term memory of the learners, and it is the main cause that affects learning outcomes.So in each operational procedure instruction, if we want students’ learning effects to improve, what the amount of instruction exactly is? It’s really a crucial point and needs to be studied thoroughly. So the main purpose of the study is to explore how the learning effect can be in terms of different amount of operational procedure instruction, and I hope to analyze the topic, then generalize and find out the most proper amount of instruction. The study is based on operational procedure instruction. I analyzed this teaching materials and then brought up an operational procedure instruction document model. In the model, I divide teaching materials into six parts such as task, work step, skill, operation set, cut unit, and atomic operation. I take the limit of students’ short-term memory into consideration, and then divide the OS, which is advanced or contains larger amount of procedure instruction, into 1CU, 2CU, 3CU, and 4CU. Then, I invited 154 vocational high school students to this experiment, and grouped them into different CU to test them. Finally, by statistics, I found out what amount of operational procedure instruction can improve students’ learning effects. Through the research findings, we know three things, which are as follows: (1)In simple lesson, there is no apparent help for different cut units. (2)In intermediate or more advanced lessons, 2CU benefits students more. However, for the high achievers and middle level achievers, 2CU benefits students more. But, for the low achievers, 1CU benefits students more. (3)In advanced teaching lessons, to intermediate and low level students, 1CU benefits students more. Therefore, through the research findings, we know that if teachers can use different teaching amount for students with different levels in operational procedure instruction, this will surely have an influence on the students’ learning effect.