The Influence of ICT on Improving Learning in Elementary Students

Subject Areas : Infomartion Technology

Kiumars  Niazazari ¹ ()
Reza  Behnamfar ² ()
Sedigheh  Andy ³ ()

Received: 2012-03-15 Accepted : 2012-04-20 Published : 2012-04-01

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The purpose of the research was to study the effect of ICT on improving learning in geography and science courses. The research method was a semi-experimental one with two groups of students in which pretest and posttest were used. The statistical population of the research included 48963 students, that is, all the elementary girl students in Sari in 2011-2012 academic year. From among the schools equipped with ICT, two schools, and in each of them two classes (grade five) were chosen as experimental and control groups through simple random sampling method. After performing the pre-test, the experimental and control groups were taught in 8 sessions through ICT and traditional methods respectively. Finally, both groups were tested through the same achievement test which was considered as a post-test. Also, achievement tests confirmed by related educational groups were used for gathering the data and the gathered data were analyzed through Co-Variance analysis test. The results showed that ICT had positive impact on improving geography and science learning.