Opinions on computers, and efficacy of a computer-based learning: A pilot study
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- 作者：Maria Pietronilla Penna (1) penna@unica.it
Vera Stara (1) verastara@yahoo.it - 关键词：Attitudes towards technologies ; Media in an educational environment ; Teaching and learning process
- 刊名：Education and Information Technologies
- 出版时间：September 2010
- 出版年：2010
- 期刊代码：pc398_1360-2357
- 类别：cp
- 卷：15
- 期：3
- 页码：181-204
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
It is commonly believed that positive opinions of students and teachers on the possibilities entailed by computer use would increase the efficacy of computer-based educational processes. In turn, this amounts to postulate a relationship between measures of such opinions and well-defined patterns of interaction with computer-based educational tools. In this regard, this paper reports on an investigation performed in a primary school, designed to test whether expectations and opinions on computers, both of students and teachers, detected through suitable questionnaires, might be related to the effectiveness of computer use within a particular educational context. Our findings, contrarily to what expected, do not appear to support the hypothesis that a positive opinion on computers can lead per se to higher learning efficacy in a computer-based educational environment, as compared with a traditional educational setting.