The effect of educational technologies and material supported science and technology teaching on the problem solving skills of 5th grade primary school student

Abstract

The aim of this research is todetermine the effect of educational Technologies and material supported science and technology teaching on the problem solving skills of 5th grade primary school students fort his reason the software made for teaching the subjects of “The World, Sun and Moon” unit of the science and Technology lesson was prepared with the Macromedia Flash 8 program.The Buca Primary School in Buca, İzmir is the scope of this quasi experimental design study which is suitable for the” Pre-test, Post-test control group” model.The participants are 80 studenrs from the 5-C and 5-F classes of Buca Primary School of the 2006-2007 academıc year.For this research, as the data collection device, researchers used “The Problem Solving Skills Scale” developed for Level I students.The six sub-dimensional Scale comprising 38 articles has a 82 cronbach Alfa reliability coefficient. In the analysis of the research data, arithmetic mean, standart deviation was used t-test was used to compare the pre-test, post-test results of the two groups. As a result of this research, it has been Seben taht the applied program has a positive influence on the problem solving skills perception of students.