Preliminary study on applying Web-Quests to a music class in an elementary school

The purpose of this study was to utilize Web Quests for facilitating students´ listening achievement and collaborative work in a musical listening class in Taiwan. A mixed-methods study using both quantitative and qualitative approaches were be adopted. First of all, one-group posttest-only design was be developed in this study for understanding if the approach of Web Quests could assist students´ listening abilities or not. Besides, to understand their learning satisfaction and hidden effective factors, in this study, 5 points Likert scale questionnaire was conducted in the class. Finally, follow-up semi-structured interviews with the selected 8 students and instructor were collected after the experiment. Our findings suggest that there was no progress between the pretest and posttest (t=2.726, p=0.007); however, through interviews, questionnaire and observations, researcher could concluded some suggestions from the experimental group below: (1) learning content: most students have highly positive attitude in this class, and this strategy has beneficial effect learning.(2) Group collaboration: students did not get used to discuss with other group mates, because they had little opportunities doing team work.