An empirical study on the factors influencing College Students' Network Learning Efficacy

By using the self-made questionnaire “College Students' Network Learning Efficacy”, and with students from five colleges in Shanghai and Zhejiang participating in the investigation, this research explores factors influencing their learning efficacy. The results show: (1) college students' general network learning efficacy was at upper middle level on the whole; (2) according to the exploratory factor analysis, there were five main factors influencing their learning efficacy—learning guidance, learning interest, network resources' own features, network learning strategies and network equipment; (3) except for learning interest, the rest four factors were positively and very significantly correlated with college students' general network learning efficacy; (4) external factors, including learning guidance, network resources' own features and network equipment, could establish an effective stepwise regression equation with network learning efficacy, and network learning strategies could establish an effective linear regression equation with network learning efficacy.