Exploring Senior High School Math Teachers' Seeking and Use Behavior of the Internet Resourses from the Perspective of Professional Growth

• Main Authors: Jui-Su Lin, 林瑞淑
• Other Authors: Wang, Me -Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11336592786467185892

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 圖書資訊學數位碩士在職專班 === 101 === This study adopts the method of qualitative research to explore senior high school math teachers' seeking and use of the Internet resources from the perspective of professional growth. The ways of gathering information in this study are interviews and questionnaires. The findings of this study are as follows. The main ways of senior high school math teachers’ professional growth are independent learning, short-term project learning, and learning from peers. Besides, teachers adopt different methods under different situations to enhance their professional growth. Their behavior of seeking information is influenced by their different types of professional growth. The main objective of professional growth is to acquire teaching knowledge in math. Teachers of research type have higher demand for involving technology in teaching skills than those of leaning type. The former will make use journals and electronic database provided by university libraries, while the latter use neither of them. The main sources for senior high school math teachers to obtain information are Internet, personal collection, and peer exchange. Most teachers will not make use of senior high school libraries to get information needed. Senior high school math teachers are not good at searching for information on the Internet, and senior high school libraries cannot meet math teachers’ demand for professional growth. The main aim of senior high school math teachers using Internet resources are self-study, learning new knowledge, and assisting teaching. Nevertheless, the application of Internet resources to teaching is not often observed. The must used website for teaching resources is Ordinary Senior High School Curriculum Math Resource Center of MOE (http://mathcenter.ck.tp.edu.tw/MCenter/Center/Default.aspx) and the most used Internet tool is GeoGebra. The factors contributing to the use of Internet resources are the quality of Internet, teachers’ positive beliefs, the pursuit of higher degree, and the improvement of technology facilities. As for the factors of hindering teachers’ application of using Internet resources to teaching are lacking such ability, negative beliefs, the problem of copyright, students’ lukewarm feedback, lack of technology facilities, and curriculum pressure. This study gathers twenty-seven websites and eight Internet software and tools for math teachers’ reference. In the conclusion, suggestions are provided for senior high school math teachers, education authorities, senior high school libraries, and following studies.