The Effectiveness of Electronic Content of Experimental Science Course on Academic Enthusiasm and Vitality of Seventh High School Students Based on Scorm Model

Subject Areas : Virtual Learning

zahra  amini ¹ (ph dstudent of Curriculum Planning, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran)
Fatemeh  Nataghi ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran)
Mohammad  Seifi ³ (Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran)

Received: 2021-08-15 Accepted : 2023-06-27 Published : 2023-09-23

Keywords: Experimental Sciences, electronic content, academic vitality, Academic enthusiasm, Scorm,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to identify the effectiveness of electronic content of experimental science course on the academic enthusiasm and vitality of seventh grade high school students based on the Scorm model. The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest and posttest design with a control group. The statistical population was all seventh grade high school students in Hamadan in the academic year 1399-1398, from which 30 people were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided into two groups of 15 experimental and control. To conduct the research, under the same conditions, both pre-test groups were studied using Fredricks (2004) and Dehghanizadeh and Hossein Chari (2010) Academic Enthusiasm Questionnaire. It was given in such a way that the control group was trained in the classroom in the usual way and the experimental group learned the same things in the form of the Scorem standard. After the training sessions on the experimental group, The results of analysis of covariance showed that e-content teaching increases students' academic enthusiasm and vitality. In general, the results of this study showed that the use of e-content strategies training is effective to increase students' academic enthusiasm and vitality.

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