The Study of Influence on Learning Motivation and Science Learning Effect Applying Interactive

[[abstract]]The features of interactive whiteboard (IWB) are highly interactive, combining multimedia and improving teaching efficiency. Users can directly manipulate simulation component or display the content on the IWB. Recently, IWBs are common used in elementary schools. However, students need higher cognitive thinking skill in junior high school. Furthermore, students are often unable to understand the abstract concept of science, and unable to operate the experiments because of limitations in time and space. This study applies IWB into science teaching in junior high school during two-month observation. The purposes of the research are to explore the difference of learning effect and learning motivation between different teaching methods. Through the process of experiment, researcher records the interactions between instructors and learners in order to analyze the situation in classroom with IWB. After analyzing the results, we provided the conclusions as follows: 1. Teaching with IWB does not promote the learning effect of the learners in science significantly. However, teaching with IWB can facilitate the understanding of abstract concept, especially for underachievers. 2. The learning motivation of students in task value, self-efficacy for learning, and expectancy for success is higher after learning with IWB than traditional teaching method. 3. The learning motivation of students with IWB in intrinsic goal orientation and task value is higher than students with traditional teaching. 4. The most common interactive behaviors in the IWB classroom are teacher teaching with self-made materials and explaining the content of textbooks. With using more self-made teaching materials, teachers can reduce the time of writing on the blackboard and reciting the textbook, and the interaction between students also increased.