The application of female design style on chemistry e-learning course in Taiwan

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Zangyuan Own, zyown@pu.edu.tw, Department of Applied Chemistry, Providence University, #200 Chun-Chi Road, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan
This research is based on the female design style web application. Participants of this study are those female students who took the "Life Chemistry" course in the asynchronous distance education program at Providence University. The 100 female students were randomly separated into two groups. The experimental group, which was in a specially designed female style web environment and the control group was in a normal one. The 100 male students are divided into two groups as above for comparison. Various strategies of web design are applied to the experimental group female students. ACS test was used as a research tool and SPSS was used to analyze the data obtained. The results are as follow: 1. Female students under female style web out-perform regular one. 2. Higher pre-knowledge female students under female style web have shown better learning achievement than the lower pre-knowledge female students. 3. Science college female students use female style environment have shown better achievement than other college female students. 4. Those female students use female style web and spent longer study time span perform better than the shorter time span female students.
 

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