Impact of Instructional Comics on the Attitudes Towards Cizitzenship and Democracy Education
Journal Title: Journal of Computer and Education Research - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
It is known that teachers have carried various visual instructional materials into teaching process. It is thought that the visual instructional materials’ impressive characteristics which play key role in occurring permanent learning, amusing time in in the classroom, must be employed in classrooms. Because instructional comics have two essential features. First one is that picture and writing are presented together so that students can learn more effectively. The second one is that they constitute amusing classroom atmosphere by using humour. In this context, Impact of the instructional comics on attitudes towards the Citizenship and Democracy Education was investigated. Therefore, the study was designed in quasi experimental research with control group. The sample of the study consisted of 152 students studying 8th grade in Artvin in 2013-2014 instructional year. Attitude Scale Towards Every Human is Precious Theme developed by the researchers. The data was analysed through one-way ANOVA. It was concluded that instructional comics have positive impacts on attitudes towards the Citizenship and Democracy Education course.
Authors and Affiliations
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP191194
- DOI -
- Views 118
- Downloads 0
A Genre Analysis of the Methodology Sections of Descriptive Medical - Surgical Nursing Articles
The aim of the present study is to conduct a genre analysis on a corpus of 10 published research articles in the field of Medical-Surgical Nursing and propose an instructional procedure for the teaching of writing method...
A Meta-Analysis Study on the Effect of the Use of Smart Board in the Teaching of Mathematics and Science to Students’ Academic Achievements
In this study, a meta-analysis study was conducted to investigate the effect of the use of smart board on students’ academic achievements in the teaching of mathematics and science. In this meta-analysis research, 35 stu...
Computational Analysis of Igbo Numerals in a Number-to-text Conversion System
System for converting Arabic numerals to their textual equivalence is an important tool in Natural Language processing (NLP) especially in high-level speech processing and machine translation. Such system is scarcely ava...
Student Consultancy Service: Prediction of Course Grades in Course Selection Phases Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Universities offer technical elective courses to allow students to improve themselves in various parts of their majors. Each semester, the students make a decision regarding these technical electives, and the most common...
The Impact of EBA (Educational Informatics Network) Assisted Mathematics Teaching in 5th Grade Fractions on Students’ Achievements
In this study, the effects of the teaching of fractions through animation based contents on EBA and traditional methods of teaching on students’ achievement were investigated. This study was designed as a quasi-experimen...