Volume Two - Academic Conferences

8. Results and discussions
8.1 General findings
Chien-hwa Wang and Cheng-ping Chen
By analysing the collected data, the general findings of this study are described as follows: (1) Gender
distributions are roughly even, there were 4.8 % more females than males, reflecting that the use of
Yahoo! Answers Taiwan is equal between gender. An additional t-test was conducted to examine the
gender effects on learning motivation, and as expected, no significant difference (p=.324) was
observed. (2) Junior and senior students comprised the majority of the study samples (more than 70
%) possibly indicating that higher-grade university students tended to utilize Web 2.0 environment
more. (3) 53 % of the samples had 6 to 10 years Internet experience, and no one had an Internet
experience of less than one year. Statistical analysis of the influence of Internet experience on SDLR
is shown in the following section to test the research hypothesis 1. Table 2 shows the distributions
and percentages of demographic information.
Table 2: Demographic information
Variable Level No. Per cent
Gender
male
female
159
175
47.6
52.4
freshman 30 9.0
Grade
sophomore
junior
64
115
19.2
34.4
senior 125 37.4
Internet
Experience
< 1 year
1-5 Years
6-10 Years
0
67
178
0%
20.1%
53.3%
> 10 Years 89 26.6%
8.2 Hypotheses testing
8.2.1 The effect of Internet experience on SDLR
The effects of Internet experience on each subcategory (IL, EL, AL, and CL) of SDLR were
statistically examined by independent ANOVAs’, with the significant level set to .05. The results
indicated that: (1) Internet experience had an effect on overall SDLR scores (F=4.86, p=.008); (2) it
also had an effect on IL (F=4.19, p=.016) and EL (F=5.76, p=.003), but no significant result was found
in CL. Although the difference was statistically insignificant, descriptive data indicated that the more
years of Internet experience, the greater CL scores were. Table 3 shows the means, standard
deviations (SD), F value, and p value of each SDLR categories.
Table 3: Statistical data of SDLR and Internet experience
Sub-SDLR Internet. Experience Mean SD F P
IL
EL
AL
CL
Overall
1-5 years. 3.46 .48
6-10 years. 3.52 .52
>10 years. 3.69 .56
1-5 years. 3.32 .56
6-10 years. 3.36 .59
>10 years. 3.59 .62
1-5 years. 3.36 .62
6-10 years. 3.48 .64
>10 years. 3.58 .70
1-5 years. 3.53 .67
6-10 years. 3.56 .70
>10 years. 3.76 .71
1-5 years. 3.47 .48
6-10 years. 3.55 .52
>10 years. 3.72 .55
851
4.19 .016
5.76 .003
4.52 .012
2.78 .064
4.86 .008