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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2019.39.1.89

Development and Instructional Effect of Digital Textbook for the Biological Evolution Unit in Middle School Science  

Jeong, Yu-na (Cheongju Yulyang Middle School)
Cha, Heeyoung (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.39, no.1, 2019 , pp. 89-99 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of students' formation of evolutionary concept and learning on the development of digital teaching materials. The explanation of biological evolution, which explains the changes that living organisms undergo over a long period of time, can provide various contents for use in a book. The production and editing of images in digital textbooks would provide explanation of difficult concepts in a fun way. For this study, we designed instructional materials consisting of four class hours using iBooks Author, an electronic book authoring tool based on the 5E learning cycle model. In order to verify the effectiveness of the developed digital textbooks, we compared instructions by the general textbooks to those using digital textbooks. Both teaching through general textbook form and teaching using digital textbook materials had a significant effect on the formation of the concept of evolution, but interest in biological science and evolution increased significantly only in the group taught using digital textbooks. As a result of testing the instruction effect by the digital textbooks by classifying the students by type, the group that is familiar with smart devices was more active and interesting in class depending on digital literacy. The satisfaction of the developed digital textbooks also showed a positive score in the group with high digital literacy. The results of this study suggest that the development of digital textbooks in the unit of evolution can be an instructional material for easy and interesting approach to difficult concepts in the teaching of evolution.
Keywords
digital textbook; evolutionary teaching; middle school; 5E cycle learning;
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