[[alternative]]A Research In The Development of On-line Multimedia items of Junior High School Geography

[[abstract]]The purpose of this study is to develop the on-line multimedia items based on Grade 1-9 Curriculum of social learning area and Geography-related Competence Indicators. The possibilities of On-line Multimedia item development was evaluated through the response of the questionnaires administered to teachers and students. The research participants were 109 nitnth-grade students（46 males and 63 females） and 33 teachers（15 males and 18 females）. Due to the bank of on-line testing items which is located in the server of Taipei Municipal Shun-yuan Junior High School, the differences of evaluations between intranet and extranet testing system are investigated. Therefore, the selected students are divided into two groups: intranet and extranet. The intranet group are 71 students from Taipei Municipal Shun-yuan Junior High School（34 males and 37 females）.The extranet group are 38 students from other schools（12 males and 26 females）. The research equipments included the on-line multimedia items of Junior High School Geography and the questionnaires of the test evaluations scaled for teachers and pupils. Frequency, percentage, independent samples t-test, One-Way ANOVA and XY Scatter Chart were used to analyze the collected data. The main conclusions drawn from the data were stated as follows: 1. ‘The landscape observation’, ‘the simulated operation of equipments’, ‘the information gatherings and analyze’ and ‘the production of geographical charts by computerized techniques’ are suitable testing items for on-line multimedia. 2. On-line multimedia can perfectly replace those testing items which include too much question content or background description. 3. The results show that students don’t do well on the items of process skills, so that the rate of accuracy is not high enough. Thus, the teaching of Geography should emphasize on the training of process skills. 4. On-line multimedia items are proper for quiz in class or extended learning tools after school. Moreover, the items of higher levels can be designed for the competitions of geographical knowledge between talented students. 5. On-line multimedia items are more acceptable by those students who score high and usually exercise with CAL, and by those teachers who often use CAI on their teaching work. 6. Nowadays, it would be more adequate to implement the on-line multimedia testing items of Geography under the environment of intranet.