Program in developing jurisprudential concepts among secondary school students

Abstract

The current research aimed to determine the effectiveness of using two patterns of feedback in a computer multimedia educational program in developing jurisprudential concepts among secondary school students., To achieve this objective, the researcher prepared two educational computer programs for the second unit of the 12 grade jurisprudence text book of the first semester, the first program with corrective feedback, and the second with explanative feedback, and also he prepared a test in the jurisprudence Concepts of this unit, the two programs and the test were showed to a group of jury members with the aim of judging. Then the validity and reliability of the test were checked, the research used the experimental method using the pre-post design on three groups: the first experimental, the second experimental, and the control group. The research sample consisted of 60 of the 12 grade students in Dammam, the first experimental (20 students), the second experimental (20 students), and the control (20 students). Before application of the two programs on the experimental groups, the equality of the three groups in, the jurisprudence concepts were verified. The results of the research indicated the effectiveness of using of using two types of feedback in educational computer programs in developing of jurisprudence concepts with the Secondary School students, and indicated that the explanative feedback is more effective than corrective feedback, Based on the results the researcher recommended that: the importance of preparing the educational computer programs in the light of feedback standards, and make more researches to investigate the ways to develop the jurisprudence concepts.