Exploring the relationship between virtual learning environment preference, use, and learning outcomes in 10th grade earth science students

• Published in: Learning, media and technology Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 399 - 417
• Main Authors: Lin, Ming-Chao, Tutwiler, M. Shane, Chang, Chun-Yen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.12.2011
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Computer Assisted Instruction; Computer Simulation; Computer Uses in Education; Computers; Earth Science; Educational Environment; Educational Technology; Field Trips; Foreign Countries; Games; Grade 10; High School Students; Intervention; Multiple Regression Analysis; Outcomes of Education; Pretests Posttests; Questionnaires; Scores; Sex; Student Attitudes; Taiwan; Video Games; Virtual Classrooms; virtual learning environments (VLEs); virtual reality; Taiwan
• ISSN: 1743-9884; 1743-9892
• DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2011.629660

This study investigated the relationship between the use of a three-dimensional Virtual Reality Learning Environment for Field Trip (3DVLE (ft) ) system and the achievement levels of senior high school earth science students. The 3DVLE (ft) system was presented in two separate formats: Teacher Demonstrated Based and Student Co-navigated Based. The results from the pre- and post-intervention assessments, along with the demographic and affective data, were used to fit a series of multiple regression models to explore the relationship between achievement, attitude, and learning environment preference. Pre-intervention test score, virtual learning environment preference and use, the degree to which students found the system helpful, and gender were all significantly related to post-intervention test score variability, as was the interaction between gender and prior use of virtual environments.