Exploring Students’ Learning Outcome and Gender Differences in a Digital Video Clip Course

Abstract

This study explores whether gender differences have significant impact on learning outcomes in the course of digital video clips. The subjects of the experiment were third-year students of the University of Science and Technology of Southern Taiwan. The learning goal of the course is to complete the 18-week course with all function operations and the project of digital video clips. The course adopts Project-Based Learning (PBL) teaching method. The midterm test includes several digital video clip discipline concepts and practical implementation. The final exam consists of several digital video clip works and project production. The project scoring method is peer-to-peer evaluation. There are 50 valid samples, including 25 boys and 25 girls. The experimental results show that girls' learning performance are higher than those of boys are. Therefore, in the digital video clip course, how to design suitable teaching strategies for different gender students' needs and improve the learning performance of students of different genders is a research topic worth exploring in the future.