Incorporating Multimedia in Social Studies Instruction: Does it Improve Students’ Performance, Interest, and Instructional Effectiveness Attitude?
Date Issued
2007
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Abstract
This study investigates whether using multimedia-based instructional material in social
studies class may enhance students’ learning about world issues, elicit their interest in social
studies, and generate positive attitudes toward instructional effectiveness, greater than text -based
material. The investigation was set in the GlobalEd Project, a web-based international
negotiations simulation embedded in the middle school social studies curriculum. The study
employed an experimental design with a multimedia group (MG, experimental condition) and a
text group (TG, comparison condition). Results provided no direct evidence that multimedia is
more effective than text, with regards to our outcome measures. However, although not
statistically significantly, students in MG showed larger gains in knowledge and interest as a
result of the intervention, as well as more positive instructional effectiveness attitudes. In
addition, students in MG used the instructional material more extensively than students in TG.
studies class may enhance students’ learning about world issues, elicit their interest in social
studies, and generate positive attitudes toward instructional effectiveness, greater than text -based
material. The investigation was set in the GlobalEd Project, a web-based international
negotiations simulation embedded in the middle school social studies curriculum. The study
employed an experimental design with a multimedia group (MG, experimental condition) and a
text group (TG, comparison condition). Results provided no direct evidence that multimedia is
more effective than text, with regards to our outcome measures. However, although not
statistically significantly, students in MG showed larger gains in knowledge and interest as a
result of the intervention, as well as more positive instructional effectiveness attitudes. In
addition, students in MG used the instructional material more extensively than students in TG.
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