The Efficiency of Using the Interactive Smartboard in Social Studies to Increase Students’ Achievement and Tendency Toward the Subject Matter in the State of Qatar
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This research aims to determine the effectiveness of the use of interactive smartboard techniques and applications in teaching a unit of a social studies curriculum for preparatory stage students in Qatar. The selected sample (47 students) is distributed into two groups, the experimental group which studied a chosen unit using the interactive smartboard, and the other group, the control group, which studied the same lesson plan conventionally. The two methods administered to the groups, before and after the experiment, are codified through a cognitive performance evaluation using the three stages of Bloom, and a structured assessment of the inclination towards social studies is applied. All groups are taught the same unit, prepared by the same teacher, but with a different method of teaching. To statistically test the research hypotheses, a quantitative comparison between the scores of the two groups before and after the experiment is carried out. The results indicate that the differences between the two groups in average values in favor of the trial group are statistically significant.
https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.3.1
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