Title:	LEARNING FROM THE WEB: ANALYSES THE INCIDENCE OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO IMPROVE SECONDARY STUDENTS’ WEB PERFORMANCE
Author(s):	Manoli Pifarré , Ingrid Martorell , Susana Gòdia
ISBN:	972-8924-22-4
Editors:	Kinshuk, Demetrios G Sampson, J. Michael Spector and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2006
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Computer-web instruction. Scaffolding processes. Learning achievement. Assessing progress of learning. Secondary education. Science education.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	52
Last Page:	59
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The main goals of this research are addressed to design, implement and evaluate and instructional approach that helps students to learn from web information. We developed on-line learning materials which focus on specific curricular contents and provide specific scaffolds which help students to accomplish web-based tasks. These scaffolds pretend to give support students’ information-seeking activities as they asked question of interest, searched for information, organised and assessed their findings, and created rich representations of their newly constructed understandings. We designed a yearlong study to investigate the depth and accuracy of secondary students’ content understanding as well as their development of searching and managerial strategies as they utilized on-line resources to solve instructional tasks. Our research found experimental group students performed statistically better the computer-based activity than control group students. To us, the good results obtained in our study on students’ web performance show the positive incidence of the instructional approach on development of more efficient searching and managerial web-information strategies and its contribution to enhance digital literacy in Secondary Education.
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