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postgraduate thesis: Exploring the use of Wiki in a secondary school science project
Title | Exploring the use of Wiki in a secondary school science project |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2010 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Lee, L. [李躐康]. (2010). Exploring the use of Wiki in a secondary school science project. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4746916 |
Abstract | This study explores the use of wiki in supporting a science project undertaken in a Hong Kong secondary school through a mixed method approach involving triangulation of questionnaire survey, interviews, and analysis of students? wikis. The findings showed positive results on students? motivations, enjoyments, effort input, and perceived value. More important, the results highlighted the fact that satisfaction of students? perceived needs from teacher?s autonomy support improves their attributes, attitudes, and expectations of learning outcomes in general. The researcher identifies a discrepancy between students? expectations and their actual achievements of the learning outcomes. Specifically, students think in a higher order and construct knowledge at a wider level when comparing with what they have expected whereas their expectations of generic skills development significantly outweighed what they have actually achieved. To bridge this discrepancy, the researcher suggested that (a) flexibly balancing the structure and freedom of wiki, (b) carefully planning the project duration, (c) scaffolding in wiki project, (d) carefully choosing of the project topics, (e) explicitly emphasizing the learning outcomes, and (f) raising students? information literacy are all essential. The findings also indicated the exists of limitations in this small scale study and thus further investigations on the pedagogical challenges of integrating wiki in science project learning are required. |
Degree | Master of Science in Information Technology in Education |
Subject | Wikis (Computer science) Science projects - Technological innovations - China - Hong Kong. Science - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Technological innovations - China - Hong Kong. |
Dept/Program | Education |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/174394 |
HKU Library Item ID | b4746916 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lee, Lit-hong. | - |
dc.contributor.author | 李躐康. | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Lee, L. [李躐康]. (2010). Exploring the use of Wiki in a secondary school science project. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4746916 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/174394 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study explores the use of wiki in supporting a science project undertaken in a Hong Kong secondary school through a mixed method approach involving triangulation of questionnaire survey, interviews, and analysis of students? wikis. The findings showed positive results on students? motivations, enjoyments, effort input, and perceived value. More important, the results highlighted the fact that satisfaction of students? perceived needs from teacher?s autonomy support improves their attributes, attitudes, and expectations of learning outcomes in general. The researcher identifies a discrepancy between students? expectations and their actual achievements of the learning outcomes. Specifically, students think in a higher order and construct knowledge at a wider level when comparing with what they have expected whereas their expectations of generic skills development significantly outweighed what they have actually achieved. To bridge this discrepancy, the researcher suggested that (a) flexibly balancing the structure and freedom of wiki, (b) carefully planning the project duration, (c) scaffolding in wiki project, (d) carefully choosing of the project topics, (e) explicitly emphasizing the learning outcomes, and (f) raising students? information literacy are all essential. The findings also indicated the exists of limitations in this small scale study and thus further investigations on the pedagogical challenges of integrating wiki in science project learning are required. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.source.uri | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4746916X | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Wikis (Computer science) | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Science projects - Technological innovations - China - Hong Kong. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Science - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Technological innovations - China - Hong Kong. | - |
dc.title | Exploring the use of Wiki in a secondary school science project | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b4746916 | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Science in Information Technology in Education | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Education | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5353/th_b4746916 | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991033135869703414 | - |