Chinese secondary students´ reactions to interactive whiteboard: Perception and performance

Author

Zhou, Yuxia ; Yuan, Xicheng ; Li, Lin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Educ. Technol., Yunnan Normal Univ., Kunming, China

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

6413

Lastpage

6417

Abstract

How did students react to Interactive Whiteboard in the Chinese background of exam-oriented education system? This study with mixed method was conducted to investigate the students´ perception, exam performance and difficulties confronted in one Chinese secondary school after two months´ using of IWB. It was found that students had positive perception, especially to art curricula and student studing curricula of history, math, Chinese(one of two classes) had significant improvement in exam performance. However, students also thought there may be problems in hardware, software, resource and maintenance management.

Keywords

art; educational institutions; educational technology; history; interactive devices; psychology; Chinese secondary school; Chinese secondary student; IWB; art curricula; exam performance; exam-oriented education system; history curricula; interactive whiteboard; maintenance management; student perception; Analysis of variance; Companies; Educational institutions; History; Information technology; Media; Interactive Whiteboard; exam performance; perception;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yichang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8162-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6056945

Filename

6056945