The effect of using the social network (Twitter) in teaching on the achievement of first-grade secondary students in the subject of research skills and information sources in Hafar Al-Batin Governorate

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effect of the use of social networks (Twitter) on the academic achievement level of the first year of secondary students in the course of research and sources of information skills and to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher prepares a study tool which is about achievement test to determine the level of student achievement in cognitive levels lower in classification Bloom (remembering, understanding, application) separately, and also in the overall achievement test and applied study on a random sample of first-grade secondary students Hafr Albatin numbered 50 students have reached the researcher to the following results:

-There are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) in the average student achievement in the decision of research skills and sources of information between the control group and experimental in the post application when remembering, understanding and application of each separately for the experimental group was taught using Twitter levels.

-There are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) in the average student achievement in the decision of research skills and sources of information between the control group and the experimental application in the post in the overall achievement test for the experimental group was taught using Twitter.

In light of the findings, the researcher developed a number of recommendations represent the most important in the following:

activation of teaching using social networks (Twitter) in the decisions of the research skills and sources of information in all classrooms.