4. Methods
4.1. Participants
The study took place in an urban public school in southern Taiwan. Fifty-eight fifth-grade students (11–12 year olds) from two classes of
an elementary school participated in the experiment. The students distributed in the two classes had equivalent academic achievement via
normal class grouping after entering the school, and had also experienced information-searching lessons in the fourth grade. One teacher
taught two classes in the same computer classroom at different times of the day. This teacher had five years teaching experience. One class
was assigned to be the experimental group, while the other was the control group. The students in the experimental group learned with the
hybrid approach that combined the collaborative learning strategy and the cognitive apprenticeship strategy, while the control group
students learned with only the cognitive apprenticeship strategy.