Volume Two - Academic Conferences

Chien-hwa Wang and Cheng-ping Chen
motivation inventory had two aspects: intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, both of them had three
levels, as described in the previous section. Some sample questions are listed in Table 1.
Figure 1: Research framework
Table 1: Sample questions of the questionnaire
SDLRS
Learning
Motivation
Inventory
Factors Questions
IL I understand my learning achievement
EL It is important for me to understand learning methods
AL I will try my best to learn even I’m very busy
CL I like to solve problems by employing innovative methods
I like to use Yahoo! Answers because
AKA I am interested in the information embedded
EPP it helps me solve academic problems
SPP it is more efficient in finding useful solutions
AVS I am able to interact with more virtual friends
The questionnaire was designed with reliability and validity confirmation. Firstly, an expert validation
process was conducted and several questions were modified as per experts’ suggestion, and some
questions were eliminated from the original of 86 questions. The final questionnaire comprised 69
questions in total, 10 for demographic information, 29 for the SDLRS, and 30 for the learning
motivation inventory. Secondly, a Cronbach α reliability test (Crocker and Algina, 1986) was
conducted during a pilot study with 35 samples drawn from the same population as the formal survey
to confirm the internal validity. An overall reliability value of .964 was reported for the SDLRS, and
.977 for the learning motivation inventory.
7.2 Sampling and data processing
The study subjects were university students who are frequent users of a local Web 2.0 knowledgesharing
site Yahoo! Answers of Taiwan. From a total of 21 universities, 6 universities in Taipei City
were randomly selected. A systematic sampling process was then taken to randomly select frequent
Yahoo! Answer users from each of the 6 universities. Approximately 350 students were selected to
answer the questionnaire.
The Web 2.0 site Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer site that allows users
to both submit and answer questions asked by other users. Yahoo! Answers is currently available in
up to 19 countries and areas in different languages. Yahoo! Answers Taiwan was launched in 2004.
More than a million items were posted onto the site in the first six months following its debut.
Therefore, this site was selected because it is one of the most widely used knowledge-sharing tools of
students in Taiwan.
The data from 344 valid questionnaires were collected and analysed descriptively and statistically. A
one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was performed to examine the effect of learners’ web
experience on self-directed learning readiness, and a Pearson product moment correlation process
was conducted to measure the coefficient of self-directed learning readiness and web 2.0 learning
motivation.
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