A Study of the Relation between Junior High School Student' Learning Adaptation and Computer Assisted Instruction

Abstract

This study employed the mixed factorial quasi-experimental design to experiment in multi-media computer assisted instruction learning on 220 junior high school students from the six counties of southern and eastern Taiwan. The students participating in the experiment were divided into two groups：one group learned the CD curricula at school and the other one learned them at home. The main purposes of the experiment were to understand if there were any differences in learning achievement among students with different capabilitiesin learning to adapt after they had attended the multi-media curricula, and toobserve the changes in computer attitudes, which may have occurred before and after learning process, among students with different capabilities in learning to adapt. The results showed that student mental and physical adaptation, learning attitudes, and computer attitudes all influenced the learning process and effects. Besides, the results also showed that students with worse capabilities in learning to adapt, after their participation, had more positive responses than they did before their participation.