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April 2012 Volume 15 Number 2 - Educational Technology & Society

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too simple, incomplete, or they even misunderstood the questions. Therefore, the questionnaire could not satisfy the<br />

lowest level of reporting. To avoid this situation, this study adopted the modified evaluation criteria by Chen et al.<br />

(2009) to score the group’s reflection content of traffic violations article from each learning group (see Appendix 1).<br />

Procedures<br />

The designed learning activity was deployed for about four weeks including pretest stage, reflective learning activity<br />

and evaluation stage. Figure 5 shows the procedure of the experiment. In the first stage, the teacher introduced the<br />

learning activity and instructed the use of the proposed system which includes the idea of how to achieve reflective<br />

learning in the mobile setting. In this stage, a pre-test was administered to evaluate the initial reflection level of each<br />

group. In the second stage, according to the design of the learning activity mentioned above, the learners<br />

collaborated to complete the learning activity and contributed the reflection content and comments for the learning<br />

topic. After conducting the learning activities, the learners were asked to take a questionnaire regarding the<br />

usefulness of the proposed system and a post-test in the third stage. Further, all the learners in each group were<br />

interviewed to obtain their opinions about the present study.<br />

Results<br />

First stage<br />

(Pre-test)<br />

Second stage<br />

(Reflective learning<br />

activities with the<br />

proposed system)<br />

Third stage<br />

(Questionnaire and<br />

Post-test)<br />

Introduce the learning activity<br />

Grouping<br />

Read a traffic violation article<br />

Post group co-reflection contents<br />

Learners use Smart Phone to transmit<br />

photos of local traffic problems<br />

Accessing<br />

Discussing<br />

Discovering<br />

Sharing<br />

Read a traffic violation article<br />

Post group co-reflection contents<br />

Questionnaire<br />

and Interview<br />

Figure 5. Experimental procedure<br />

100<br />

minutes<br />

4<br />

weeks<br />

<strong>15</strong>0<br />

minutes<br />

This section discusses results concerning: the UMLS questionnaire survey of ML activities based on different gender<br />

and age level, and the traffic violation reflection levels of the ML activities based on different groups.<br />

Effects of mobile learning on traffic violations<br />

To examine the effects of ML on traffic violations after using the proposed ML environment, SPSS statistic software<br />

was used to analyze the results of the UMLS questionnaire. After the learners completed the survey, the reliabilities<br />

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