The Role of Using the Digitization on Achievement and Motivation of the 6th Graders in Science and Teachers’ Trends Towards Using Digitization in Government Schools in Bethlehem District
Date
2019-07-20
Authors
عبير اديب عودة قاش
Abeer Adeeb Odah Qash
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Al-Quds University
Abstract
The present study aimed at investigating the Role of using digitization on students’
achievement and motivation in science and the attitude of their teachers to use it. The
descriptive analytical approach was used in the analysis of the educational module (unit of
human body organs); this study utilized the quasi-experimental type methodology. The
study has been applied on a purposeful sample of the 6th graders in governmental schools,
in Bethlehem District in the academic year 2018/2019. The sample included (122) students
(60 males and 62 females) at Salah al-Deen Basic School for Boys, Al-Shaheed Said Al-
Ass Basic School for Boys, Mariam Al-Athra Primary School for Girls and Al-Khader
Primary School for Girls. Students were assigned to experimental and control groups; the
experimental group was taught by using digitization and the controlled one was taught by
the Normal method.
An achievement test was prepared and a questionnaire for motivation, in addition to the
questionnaire for the teachers’ attitudes. Content validity and reliability were established
for all instruments, it was 0.9 for the questionnaire and 0.8 for the test. The experiments
have lasted for two months. Achievement tests were performed based on Bloom's
Taxonomy analysis for the taught units; at the same time, a questionnaire was distributed
to the students to measure the effect of using digitization. The means and standard
deviation, (2-way ANCOVA) test, were used in the study. The findings of the study showed
that there is no significant statistical difference in the achievement test due to the effect of
the method used in teaching the 6th graders when compared to the four schools.
Therefore, digitization schools are statistically significant on Analysis, Synthesis, and
Application and in favor of the girls’ schools. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy objectives and the
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results of the study indicate that there is a strong positive association in the students'
attitudes to learn how to use digitization in both level of internal and external motivation.
Hence, the significant level of the four domain .045, .01 and 0.007, which indicate that
there is significant difference between the internal motivation, external motivation, total
motivation, and exam results.
Moreover, teachers' attitudes in the four areas were positive with regards to using
digitization as an instructional tool in teaching science, and the overall score of their
responses to all paragraphs of the questionnaire. In addition, teachers' attitudes were
positive towards the use of digitization as an instructional tool in teaching science. The
study shows that the attitudes of science teachers towards the use of digitization as an
educational tool in teaching science are positive, regardless of the gender, qualification or
years of experience. This encourages the use of these positive trends in the use of computers
in teaching as an effective teaching method to improve the learning process and its
outcomes.
Based on those findings, the study recommends that the training programs may be offered
to train teachers on how to use digitization; students could be provided with opportunities
to practice using it.
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Qash، Abeer Adeeb. (2019). The Role of Using the Digitization on Achievement and
Motivation of the 6th Graders in Science and Teachers’ Trends Towards Using
Digitization in Government Schools in Bethlehem District [رسالة ماجستير منشورة، جامعة
القدس، فلسطين]. المستودع الرقمي لجامعة القدس. https://arab-scholars.com/cd4988