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Research On Influencing Factors Of Junior Middle School Students’ Mobile Learning Based On UTAUT Modelile Terminal

Posted on:2020-02-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W H ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2507306029972499Subject:Master of Education
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Under the development goals of “everyone can learn everywhere at any time”,“Internet+education” has become an irresistible product of the times.As an important mode of “Internet+education”,mobile learning is widely accepted by learners.Although students in Heyuan City think highly of mobile learning,they don’t use it frequently enough,let alone with a long time.Faced with this situation,the author believes it a key to know more about the influence factors of middle school students using mobile learning.Therefore,it is worth investigating the influence factors of mobile learning among middle school students.With the help of knowledge about acceptance about middle school students using mobile learning,aiming to guarantee the rationality of models construction for the influence factors of mobile learning,the author combines the research results on this aspect both at home and abroad.Additionally,the author carries out a questionnaire survey among 150 students and 90 teachers in NO.1 Middle School of Yuancheng District and other 2 schools,getting a preliminary understanding of the present situation of mobile learning there.According to the former interviews of junior high school students,the author first uses for reference of the research results of Venkatesh,Morris&Davi,Xie Aizhen and Wei Meng and then prepares the questionnaire for the influencing factors of mobile learning for junior high school students in Heyuan.Considering the fact that students are not allowed to bring electronic products to school,this questionnaire is designed for middle school students who are equipped with Tablet Computer in school.After making the questionnaire,the author first analyzes the reliability and eptitude of it using IBM SPSS Statistics 22(statistics analysis software)by pre-investigating those 150 students mentioned above.Under the precondition that reliability and eptitude are ensured,the author then begins a formal investigation among 450 middle school students coming from NO.1 Middle School of Yuancheng District,The Experimental of He Yuan Middle School and Che Tian Middle School.Using SPSS to analyze the reliability and eptitude of the formal questionnaire,the author checks the model,models the structural equation of the survey data and verifies its modeling fitting by making use of AMOS.The research results show that there are six factors having outstanding effects on people’s behavioral intention while innovation and perceived cost have no significant effect.The degree of influence of each factor is ranked as follow: Perceptual Interest> Self-learning Management > Effort Expectation > Social Impact > Performance Expectation > Perceived Risk.According to the research results and the characteristics of junior high school students,the author puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions for improving the mobile learning behavior of junior high school students in Heyuan City.For example,we can improve the fun of mobile learning by combining its educational feature,gameplay and sociability.Additionally,using screen mode to read is also a good choice,which can reduce the influencing factors that distract learners attention.Finally,the author carries out practical teaching in the form of extracurricular interest groups and examines the research theories in practice.
Keywords/Search Tags:UTAUT, Influencing factor, Junior high school student mobile learning
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