| Abstract: | The tourism factory offers traditional industries an alternative way to transform. Visitors can see the production processes of the factories, get to know industrial culture and enjoy a sense of recreation.And the tourism factory is a popular place for outdoor teaching. The purpose of this research was to explore and discuss the cognition, satisfaction, effect of outdoor teaching for elementary school students as well as explored the relations among the cognition, satisfaction, effect of outdoor teaching. The main objects of this study were elementary school students who learned at Mutou wood Tourism Factory. A total of 392 samples were obtained. Descriptive statistics, independent sample T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson Product-Moment correlation, and Multiple Regression were computed for data analysis. Through the statistic analysis, the following findings were conducted: First, there was a significant impact of some statistical population variables on cognition, satisfaction and effect of outdoor teaching.“ Grade ”and “ preference of outdoor teaching ” in the cognition of outdoor teaching show a significant difference. “ gender ” , “ age ” and“ preference of outdoor teaching” in the satisfaction of outdoor teaching show a significant difference. “ grade ”, “ visit experience ”and “ preference of outdoor teaching ” in the effect of outdoor teaching show a significant difference. Second, the result of learning cognition and learning satisfaction revealed positively correlated, the result of learning cognition and learning effect revealed positively correlated, the result of learning satisfaction and learning effect revealed positively correlated. In addition, the second-grade and fourth-grade students agreed more than sixth-grade students that outdoor teaching can promote the self-development on cognition, affection and skills.According to above conclusions, the study provides several specific suggestions to Mutou wood Tourism Factory, elementary school teachers and follow-up research. |
