The Effect of Eba Aided Teaching on Students’ Heat-Temperature and Melting - Dissolving Conceptions

Abstract

In this study, the question of if the computer aided instruction remediates the misconceptions of elementary fourth grade students about “heat-temperature” and “melting-dissolving” was aimed to be determined. The study was designed according to pre-test and post-test experimental group design. The population was fourth grade students attending a primary school in Nigde, Turkiye during 2014-15 education and instruction year. The sample was 96 students, who were attending three primary schools at Yesilgolcuk district in Nigde. The research took a total of 12 hours during four weeks. The researcher made use of the videos and animations of Morpha Campus and Okulistic electronic contents in Education Information Network (EBA) to teach experimental group students by computer aided instruction. Misconception Test was administered to both experimental and control group students. The data were analysed by t test and Crosstab. SPSS Statistic 22 software was used in these analyses. As a result, Morpha Campus and Okulistic e-contents in EBA eliminated more misconceptions of experimental group students. Moreover, outgoing misconceptions were also decreased with the use of EBA instruction.