A study on the influence of Online Office Instructions on motivation and effects of information learning in elementary school students

Computer courses in Taiwanpsilas elementary schools are limited to learning Microsoft Office on a single machine. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to identify the influence of online Office instructions on motivation and effects of information learning in elementary school students. This study also discusses differences in motivation and effects of information learning for students with different interpersonal relationships and the feasibility of applying online Office instruction in elementary school computer courses. ldquoQuasi-experimental researchrdquo was adopted in this research. Four classes were chosen from the fifth grade. Two were assigned as the experiment group, learning Microsoft Office online. The other two classes served as control groups and learned Microsoft Office on a single machine. The experiment lasted for six weeks and the content of the instruction were ldquobasic concepts of Excelrdquo and ldquobeautifying your class schedule.rdquo The research tools include ldquoonline Office softwarerdquo, ldquolearning motivation scalerdquo, ldquoOffice learning evaluation sheetrdquo, and ldquointerpersonal interaction scale sheet of Web/real life behaviorsrdquo. The participants took the ldquointerpersonal interaction scale sheet of Web/real life behaviorsrdquo first, followed by ldquolearning motivation scalerdquo, ldquoOffice learning evaluation sheetrdquo as pretests. After the experiment, the subject participants took ldquolearning motivation scalerdquo and ldquoOffice learning evaluation sheetrdquo as posttests. The results above were analyzed by using independent-samples T-test and two-way ANOVA. The results indicate that: 1. online Office instructions significantly improved learning motivation and learning effects of elementary school students. 2. Noticeable differences were observed in learning motivation and learning effects among students with different interpersonal relationships that received different instruction courses. 3. Online Office learning courses proved to be feasible for elementary school computer courses.