Effectiveness of Online Reading Platform For  History Education by Confusion Matrix Analysis

Proceedings of ‏The 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Education

Year: 2021

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/3rd.educationconf.2021.03.221

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Effectiveness of Online Reading Platform For  History Education by Confusion Matrix Analysis

Wilton W.T. Fok, Keith C.K. Woo, Eric H.H. Au Yeung, Ken, K.Y. La, Alex M.S.Ho

 

ABSTRACT: 

The Education Bureau of HKSAR had organised the Junior Secondary History e-Reading Award Scheme in 2020 to integrate subject-based e-reading and self-directed learning to promote ‘reading to learning History. A research in its effectiveness is conducted by using confusion matrix to determine the influential factors for attracting junior secondary students to read on a cloud-based reading platform. The result showed that e-book is very effective to motivate students to read history article. Faster reading speed of an e-book is one of the reasons for students to prefer reading e-book rather than traditional book. On the other hand, e-book could also arise their interests in reading which is another factor for students to prefer e-book over traditional books.  The accuracy of these findings are 86.7% and 93.9% respectively.

Keywords: ebook; history education; e-reading; confusion matrix.