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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