The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of elementary school students¡¦ positive emotion and assess the similarity and difference among different background students while they attending this quasi-experimental study.
A nonequivalent pretest-posttest design was conducted on this study. The experimental group students who were taught by 9-weeks of ¡§Inquiry Teaching¡¨; on the other hand, the control group students who were taught by the traditional teaching method. During the beginning and end of courses, all participants conducted investigator-developed instrument ¡§Elementary School Students Positive Emotion Scale¡¨. In addition, 6 target students with more improvement scores on the post-test of positive emotion scale were recruited a follow-up interview for finding the effects of inquiry teaching project. Independent-samples t-test, paired-samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and ANCOVA were conducted for comparing the similarity and differences between two groups. A theme content analysis was conducted to analyze the qualitative data. The major findings are as follows:
1.After the use of ¡§Inquiry Teaching¡¨, the experimental group students¡¦ self-confidence score is significantly higher than the control group¡¦s.
2.The experimental group students¡¦ ¡§self-confidence¡¨ score is significantly higher than ¡§optimistic¡¨ or ¡§gratitude¡¨.
3.The experimental group moderate academic achievers present significantly more improvement on self-confidence than those of the highest academic achievers.
According to those significant findings, educational recommendations and suggestions are also provided toward teachers and researchers who can discussfurther .
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0715110-055410 |
| Date | 15 July 2010 |
| Creators | Lin, Hui-ya |
| Contributors | Zuway-R Hong, Huann-shyang Lin, Yi-Wen Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0715110-055410 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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