Student Evaluation of their Web Skills after the Metamorphoses Project

The following evaluation was given to students at the end of CLA 1-216-97, Classical Mythology:
Assess your abilities using the World Wide Web, both before the course began and now at the end of the course, using a 0-5 scale where 0 means no knowledge and 5 means excellent.
 
 
WWW Skills
Before course
After course
Difference
1. Opening Netscape
3.47
4.74
1.26*
2. Searching the WWW, using a search engine
3.53
4.59
1.06*
3. Reaching a site by typing an address
3.59
4.71
1.12*
4. Bookmarking a site
2.13
4.19
2.06***
5. Creating a web page without links
0.71
3.29
2.59***
6. Creating a web page with textual links
0.71
3.24
2.53***
7. Creating a web page with images
0.59
3.24
2.65***
8. Creating a web page with links to images
0.53
2.82
2.29***
9. Saving a web page to a floppy disk
0.91
4.18
3.26***
10. Uploading a web page
0.18
3.00
2.82***
11. Unprotecting a web page
0.07
3.33
3.27***
12. Troubleshooting problems
1.19
2.72
1.53***
 

All the comparisons web skills before and after course were significant. The following key represents the actual probability value.

* p < .05

** p < .01

*** p < .001

 

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Last updated 12 December 97

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