The Effect of Teaching History of the Based Technology to the Academic Achievement and Perception of Space of the Students


Bircan T.

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, vol.31, no.3, pp.564-577, 2016 (ESCI) identifier

Abstract

While technology is a race against time, the effects of the race have changed teaching methods, presentation and content. In recent years technology gains solid ground in history classes and finds a chance to be applied in history classes in the context of new designs. The purpose of the study is to emphasize the versatile teaching features of the computer-aided course materials that attract the attention of the students to the history courses. This research fills a significant academic and educational gap in terms of using the animation applications in a scientific study. The research has both quantitative and qualitative aspects and empirical applications that constitute the quantitative side of the research have been realized in a high school located in Ankara in 2011-2012 academic years. In the research an experimental design with pre test-final test control group has been used. In this experiment there were 59 and 60 participants in the experiment and control group, respectively. In this study, conventional methods were compared with the technology based methods. In the experiment a significant difference has been found in favor of experiment group related with academic achievement and perception of space. According to the students in the experiment group, it has been evaluated that the applied education process is enjoyable, challenging, lasting, and fast teaching and increases academic achievement.