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Teachers' Attitudes Toward WebQuests as a Method of Teaching

Computers in the SchoolsPublished 12 July 2005
Robert Perkins, Margaret L. McKnight
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TL;DR

The relationship between teachers' comfort level using WebQuests and the degree to which they are integrating Web Quests into classroom curriculum, by using the Stages of Concern Questionnaire, is discovered.

Abstract

Abstract One of the latest uses of technology gaining popular status in education is the WebQuest, a process that involves students using the World Wide Web to solve a problem. The goals of this project are to: (a) determine if teachers are using WebQuests in their classrooms; (b) ascertain whether teachers feel WebQuests are effective for teaching students; (c) determine some of the problems associated with using WebQuests; and (d) discover the relationship between teachers' comfort level using WebQuests and the degree to which they are integrating WebQuests into classroom curriculum, by using the Stages of Concern Questionnaire.

Keywords

Social SciencesComputer Science