أثر استخدام المختبرات الافتراضية على كل من التحصيل والخيال العلمي لطلاب الجامعات الأردنية في مجال دراستهم للفيزياء

Abstract EN

This study aims at identifying the effect of using physics virtual laboratories on students' achievement and scientific imagination in Jordan universities.

the study population consisted of all jordanian public and private universities which were (29) universities, while the sample was chosen randomly with (20) students in each group, and with a total of (80) students in the four groups.

the chosen sections were distributed into two sections : experimental group and control group.

the first section was taught by using virtual laboratory method while the second section was taught by using the usual laboratory.

the researchers developed two tools for this study, the first one was an achievement test which consists of (40) items and the second one was the science imagination scale with (43) items.

To ensure the content validity of tools, they were distributed to a jury.

The reliability of the achievement test was calculated by using (KR-20) which was (0.87), while reliability of scientific imagination scale was calculated by using pearson method which was (0.78).

Researchers analyzed data by using 1-ANCOVA.

results revealed that there is a statistically significant difference between groups in achievement test and in scientific imagination scale, in favor of experimental group that has been taught by using virtual laboratory.

also there is no statistically significant difference between the groups in the achievement test and scientific imagination due to the supervised authority variable (public university, private university).