The results of study aimed to investigate “the effectiveness of using computerized interactive book in the development of visual thinking skills in Technology for the fifth grade male students in Gaza” was released in the March 2013 issue of the International Journal of Computer Applications.
The study notes that the role of the teacher is changing in light of the use of technology in the classroom and with the growing availability of personal devices that can support mobile personalized learning.
Significant differences were found between the experimental group of 60 male fifth grade students and the control group of 60 male fifth graders in the following skills:
- shape recognition skills
- visual discrimination skills
- visual information interpretation skill
- spatial relationship skill
- shape analysis skill
- recognize the mystery and decoding optical illusion skill
- construction and configuration skill
- extract meaning skill
The study concludes that the measurable difference in the skills above using interactive books supports the use of them in education, and that both high and low achieving students benefit in better visual thinking skills using computerized interactive books.
A copy of the article has been posted on Scribd.com by one of the study’s authors, Ahmad Abuzayadah, and can be read in full here.
