The effect of improving the quality of education based on ICT in education

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Esmaeil Kazempour ¹ (Assistant professor. Department of education, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch,)
Zohreh Shakibaie ² (Assistant professor. Department of education, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch,)
Peyman Lotfipour ³ (Department of education, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch,)

Received: 2012-12-05 Accepted : 2013-06-28 Published : 2013-08-23

Keywords: quality of education, ICT, ICT based, Classroom-based,

Abstract :

                The purpose of this research is, investigating the impact of ICT based education on improving the quality of education. The ex post facto-research method was adopted in this research. Statistical society used for the research was 250 ICT based education and 110 classroom-based M.A. students of the Entrepreneurship faculty of Tehran university. 104 ICT based and 100 classroom-based students were randomly selected as sample volume. The instruments for data collecting were two researcher made questionnaires. Validity of questionnaires was content validity and approved by supervisor and consulting advisor of the research. For obtaining the reliability of questionnaires, a pre test of questionnaires was carried out and tested by cronbach alfa coefficient, and reliability coefficient of 0.89 was obtained. The descriptive statistics was used in description of collected data, and t-test was used in testing the hypothesis and investigating the difference between groups. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS software. The analysis of the data by P<0.05 showed that the hypothesis of the research was confirmed. Research findings show that, ICT based education by providing the opportunity of 24 hours access to educational resources and providing excess study time for learners had the most impact on improving the quality of education.