Perceived Benefits and Attitudes of Student Teachers to Web-Quest as a Motivating, Creative and Inquiry-Based Learning Tool in Education | Zendy

Samuel Aina | Zendy; Alaba Olaniyi Sofowora | Zendy

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Perceived Benefits and Attitudes of Student Teachers to Web-Quest as a Motivating, Creative and Inquiry-Based Learning Tool in Education

Author(s) -

Samuel Aina,

Alaba Olaniyi Sofowora

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

higher education studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1925-475X

pISSN - 1925-4741

DOI - 10.5539/hes.v3n5p29

Subject(s) - perception , psychology , mathematics education , sample (material) , web 2.0 , pedagogy , the internet , computer science , world wide web , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience

This study discussed how the Department of Teacher Education, University of Ibadan utilized Web-Quest as a motivating and creative tool to teach a compulsory and large pre-service teachers’ Course (TEE 304) The study also investigated the attitude and perception of pre-service teachers to the use of Web-Quest. The results showed that the sample perceived Web-Quest as a useful creative, motivating pedagogical tool for learning. Student teachers perceived Web-Quest as interesting and highly beneficial to their learning. Gender was also a factor in the utilization of Web-Quest. Furthermore, students’ age and gender had positive influence on their attitude to Web-Quest. The student teachers saw Web-Quest as an Inquiry-based pedagogical tool and learning strategy that enhanced team spirit, high level thinking, collaboration and that it saved costs and time.

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