scholarly journals Computer Tablet Games’ Effect on Young Children’s Self-Concept

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Ruba Abdel Matloub Moawad

Playing in general has a positive effect on child development; yet with the advancement of technology, the way children play has changed, and the effects of their play have changed as well. Some studies have shown an overall negative effect of electronic games, while others have reported the opposite. This study aims to investigate the effects of tablet-based electronic games on the child’s self-concept. Twenty-six children between the ages of 4 and 6 years from low-income backgrounds participated. They were divided into two groups; in the experimental group, children were given a tablet device with 10 educational electronic games on it, and the mothers were instructed to let them play the games for less than three hours a day in a normal home situation. The control group was not given any electronic devices. A pre- and post-pictorial measure of self-concept was used. The overall results showed no gains in self-concept for the experimental group and no differences between the groups, except in the domain of curiosity, where the control group children experienced a pre- to post-test increase.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Ghadah Fahad Alzaidi

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of memory strategies (MSs)in improving students' ability to recall and spell newly learned vocabulary items. The researcheronly considered three types of MSs: grouping, placing new words in to a context and structuredreviewing. In addition, the study used a questionnaire that explored students' attitudes towardsMSs in general, and towards the specific MSs that they have been trained to use, as well as therelationship between MSs and motivation and between MSs and anxiety. intact groups (63 students in total) were selected from level three of the College of Languages and Translation (COLT) at King Saud University (KSU), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The two groups were assigned to the experimental group (36 students) and the control group(27students). The control group received traditional instruction that depended on the textbook without any MS training, whereas the experimental group received a combination of traditional instruction and MS training. A pre- and post-test were administered to both groups before and after the experiment to examine students' ability to recall the meaning of vocabulary items and their ability to spell them correctly. The experiment lasted for fourteen weeks through which the participants received seven MS training sessions. The study found out that MS training was effective in improving students' ability to recall the meaning of vocabulary items when needed and their ability to spell them correctly. Moreover, the results showed that the subjects of the experimental group showed positive attitude towards MSs and most of them agreed on the positive effect that MSs had on raising their motivation and reducing their anxiety while learning vocabulary.


Author(s):  
Mai Bandar Naif Al-Kathiri Mai Bandar Naif Al-Kathiri

    The study aimed to determine the numerical sense skills that can be developed using participatory electronic games for fourth-grade students, used the semi-experimental approach, and the study sample consisted of (40) female students The fourth elementary school was divided into two groups, an experimental group of 20 students, who studied the skill of numerical sense through participatory electronic learning games, and a group of 20 students who studied the skill of numerical sense in the traditional learning method; Where the two groups applied to the pre / post achievement test, and the study found that the experimental group students exceeded the control group in the post test. The higher levels of the experimental group students in the post-test than their degrees in the pre-test in the achievement test, and thus the study for the effectiveness of the electronic study Participatory skill development in the numerical sense of mathematics course for female students of experimental group compared to female students of control group.    


Author(s):  
Nahla Al-Hazzani ◽  
Sultan Altalhab

Saudi students encounter many problems in writing skill as several studies revealed (e.g. Alhazmi, 2006; Alsamdani, 2010). Providing effective and useful feedback may help to overcome these challenges. Therefore, this study examines the effect of teachers’ written corrective feedback on female Saudi EFL students’ written essays and to what extent it affects students’ written grammatical and lexical accuracy. The sample comprises 50 foundation level students, across two groups: an experimental group (n=29) and a control group (n=21). Data were gathered over a 10-week period using a pre-/post-test/delayed post-test design for comparable groups. The findings show that although many errors were made in the writing performances, the students in the experimental group had significantly better achievements than the students in the control group on the measure. The results lend support to the efficiency of teachers’ written corrective feedback, showing it has a significant positive effect on the participants’ grammatical and lexical accuracy.


2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 488-499
Author(s):  
Shumaila Hameed ◽  
Mumtaz Akhter

Formative assessment is known for its positive effects it has on students' achievement. This study was designed to find out the effect of formative assessment on students' motivation at the higher education level. This study was experimental in nature; intact pre-test post-test control group design was used for data collection purpose. Sample of the study was selected conveniently, which comprised of undergraduate students. Students belonging to the experimental group were taught with instructional embedded formative assessment, whereas students belonging to the control group were taught with formal teaching methods. Students of both groups were required to fill a motivation questionnaire at the start and end of the study to check the level of intervention. Data collected through pre-test and post-test were analyzed using SPSS. The findings of the current study had suggested that instructional embedded formative assessment had a significant positive effect on students' motivation towards learning at the higher education level.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (0) ◽  
pp. 113-137
Author(s):  
ناهده مجيد ◽  
اياد عيسى

The current study aims to investigate the effect of using Mind Mapping technique on University students' achievement in English drama. The aim of the study is supposed to be achieved through verifying its hypotheses. The sample of the study consists of sixty EFL university students who are distributed equally into two groups, i.e. experimental and control groups. The experimental group has been taught the English drama ''Hamlet'' by using Mind Mapping technique while the control group has been taught the same material by using the traditional method. A posttest has been conducted and applied to the two groups. The required data are collected and analyzed statistically. The obtained results show that the mean scores of students' performance of the experimental group in the post test is better than that of the control group. This means that the investigated technique has a positive effect on university students' performance in English drama.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Nengsih Oktari ◽  
Ristiono Ristiono ◽  
Zulyusri Zulyusri ◽  
Heffi Alberida

This research aims to find out the effect of Two Stay Two stray  model towards students' learning competencies, which still below from the average and  there have no learning process that pursue the students  to be active and creative until the students can increase their learning competencies; knowledge, attitude and skill  in learning process. The research was quasi-experimental reserach with control  group post-test only design. The population of this research was X IPA grade students that devided into five classes at SMAN 4 Pariaman in academic year 2018/2019. The sample was taken by purposive sampling technique which grade  X IPA3 as the experimental group and grade X IPA1 as the control group. The result of this research showed  the average score for grade X IPA3 was (75,43) for experimental group and  (67,57) for control group in students' learning competencies. Then for  behavioural competence the  average score in experimental group was (84,21) and the control group reached (81,86) which the data was distributed normally and variant homogeneously. In hyphotesis testing was found by the formula tcount> ttable, learning competency (3,15 > 1,67), behavioural competency (1,76 > 1,67).  Based on the result of the study, it can be concluded that the Two Stay Two Stray model give positive effect for the students' learning competencies in ecosystem at SMAN 4 Pariaman.


Author(s):  
A. Plyska ◽  
I. Ibatullin

Numerous studies in animal husbandry are aimed at substantiating the feasibility of using waste from technical industries in animal feeding. Recently, dry post-alcohol bard can be found in compound feed recipes. It is a good source of protein, but its amount in the feed is limited due to the presence of anti-nutrients. Experimental studies of the dynamics of productivity of laying quails for the consumption of complete feed with different proportions of dry post-alcoholic bard were conducted. For this purpose 5 groups of quails of an egg direction of productivity on 30 animals aged 42 days everyone were formed. Quails of the control group consumed complete feed, which did not contain dry post-alcoholic bard. Instead, animals of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th experimental groups during the main period of the experiment were fed, respectively, 5%, 10, 15 and 20% of dry post-alcoholic bard. The nutritional value of compound feeds of all groups was the same. During 120 days of the main period of the experiment, the most prevalent control animals were quails of the 3rd experimental group, which consumed 10% of dry post-alcoholic bard as part of the feed. Slightly smaller (5.0%) was the predominance of animals of the 2nd experimental group, the content of bards in the diet of which was 5%. The least different from the control indicators were the quails of the 4th experimental group, which only 0.3% outperformed the latter, consuming 15% of dry bard in the compound feed. The share of dry post-alcoholic bard 20% in the complete feed of quails of the 5th experimental group had a negative effect on their productivity, as the gross collection of eggs in this group was less than the control by 1.6%. In addition to differences in the number of collected eggs, the results of the experiment showed a statistically significant difference in the weight of laid eggs between animals of the control and experimental groups. During the main period of the experiment on the average weight of eggs the most control was dominated by birds of the 3rd experimental group - by 1.1%. Slightly smaller (0.7%) was the predominance of animals of the 2nd experimental group. Quails of the 4th experimental group were little different from the control in terms of egg weight - only 0.4% outweighed it. The birds of the 5th experimental group also slightly differed from the control in terms of egg weight - only 0.2% inferior to it. Thus, the inclusion of 5–10% of dry post-alcoholic bard in the feed has a positive effect on the productivity of quails. Key words: dry post-alcoholic bard, eggs, quails, laying, egg weight, compound feed, feeding.


2018 ◽  
Vol 224 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Assist. Inst. Rana Salem Obeed

The present study aims at investigating the effect of Collaborative Reading on Iraqi EFL Intermediate School Pupils' Reading Comprehension. To fulfill the purposes of this study, (60) second -class  pupils are randomly chosen to be the sample of the present study. They are divided into experimental (30 ) and control group(30 ). During the experiment, the experimental group is taught reading collaboratively, while, the control group is taught conventionally. After conducting the post test, the findings indicate that there is significant difference in reading comprehension between the performance of the experimental and control groups the post – test. In other words, collaborative reading is found to have a positive effect on student' reading comprehension. On the basis of the results obtained, a set of recommendations is put forward.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Riky Oktavianus Depari ◽  
Azwandi Azwandi ◽  
Syahrial Syahrial

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of picture card games technique toward students’ vocabulary mastery. The participant was all the fifth year students of SD N 99 Kota Bengkulu that consisted of 68 students, the students divided into two classes, namely class VA and VB. The sample were the two classes which 34 students in each class. The students were divided into two groups, the experimental and the control groups. The experimental group received treatment by using card games techniques, while the control group was taught by using conventional technique. The pre-test was given to the two groups before giving the treatment. It found that there was no significant between the two groups in vocabulary mastery before giving the treatment. However, after giving the treatment, post-test was given and it found that there was a significant difference between the two groups. It can be concluded that card games technique gave positive effect toward the students’ English vocabulary mastery of SD N 99 Kota Bengkulu.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Mendes Porcellato

This study is motivated by the dearth of research in pragmatic instruction in Italian as a foreign language (IFL) with beginner learners. Based on the limitations in the way IFL textbooks present requests, instructional material was designed with the following objectives: to improve learners’ pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competences and to raise their awareness of request realisation across different contexts. The material, designed for a 60-minute pedagogical intervention, was then used in an Italian language school in Sao Paulo with five intact classes of beginner Brazilian learners of Italian. We implemented a pre- and post-test quasi-experimental methodological design, where three classes were randomly selected to serve as the experimental group, and two classes served as the control group. The data collected through written DCTs and simplified retrospective questionnaires revealed that the learners in the experimental group showed a more significant improvement in their socio pragmatic, pragmalinguistic and metapragmatic competence compared to the control group. These results suggest a positive effect of consciousness-raising activities on learners’ declarative knowledge in the short term.


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