Effectiveness of the use of electronic educational blogs in teaching computers on the achievement of students

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to know the effectiveness of using educational blogs in teaching computers on the achievement of students in the second year in the College of Education and retention of information. The researcher used the semi-experimental method. The sample of research consisted of (36) students in the second year in the department of Biology, the College of Education at the University of Samarra has been divided into two groups, one of which consists of (18) students which has been considered as control group and has been studied using the classical method, and the experimental group which consisted of 18 students studied using the educational blog. Both groups (experimental and control) were similar in number and equal in the number of variables that could affect the safety of experimental design of the research. The researcher choose Chapter 4 of (Microsoft PowerPoint 2010) and Chapter 5 (Inserting Objects and Adding Movements in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010) from Computer Basics Part 2, which is taught to students of the second stage at the College of Education / University of Samarra, the researcher used the test of achievement in the computer material, prepared by the researcher consists of (50) paragraphs of the multiple choice, and to test the validity of assumptions used researcher statistical packages program (SPSS): The research has been found the following results: there was significant difference at the level of significance (0.05), between the mean scores of the experimental group studied using the educational blogs and the mean scores of the control group students who studied using the traditional method in the post-test for the experimental group; there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) among the mean score of the experimental group students studied using the educational blogs, and the mean score of the control group students studied using the traditional method of post-test to retain information for the benefit of the experimental group. In light of the findings of the current research, the researcher recommended a number of recommendations, of which the need to use electronic educational blogs in teaching computers in the colleges of education, and the need to work on the processing of computer laboratories in colleges, institutes and educational institutions Internet service.