Exploring a computer-assisted managing system with competence indicators in Taiwan

Abstract

Grade 1-9 Curriculum connects elementary school and junior high school in Taiwan with Competence Indicators (CIs). CIs are the references for editing teaching materials, designing instruction, planning and implementing evaluation. Teachers can follow CIs while designing the teaching materials or offering supplement teaching materials. In order to allow the instructors to acquire suitable teaching materials from Internet and the students to access to the learning materials suitable for them from Internet, this study proposes a computer-assisted learning system which uses a clustering strategy to systematically access instructional materials according to learning map and CIs, so that correct learning components can be found efficiently and learning sequence can be designed effectively. This study takes numbers and quantities of mathematics at third grade students of elementary school as an example, then further investigate the changes of 32 students' mathematics achievement after learning. This study conclusion is that the students can enhance the learning effects by learning on their own. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.