A Research on the Effects of Computer Assisted Science Teaching

This study aims to prove the effectiveness of computer assisted teaching method over the teacher- centered method (explaining, question-answer, demonstration) together with the academic achievement of science teaching students in the fields of science and technology. In this study, pretest-final test control grouped model was used and 3 class students of science Teaching department, Education Faculty at rd Cumhuriyet University in Sivas, in the term fall, 2006-2007 academic year, were involved in it. Both control groups (n=24) and experiments group (n=23) had the same features in terms of being students and totally 47 students partcipated in our study. The resarch has lasted for twelve weeks with the pre test, final test and permanent test application periods for both groups. After t-test analysis, data showed that computer assisted teaching was more effective than teacher-centered methods to increase acedemic achievement and to acquire permanent teaching.