The Impact of Electronic Learning Package in Mathematics for Secondary Schools in Palestine on Students’ Achievement Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Majdi M.R. Hinnawi, Mr. Nazieh Rayeq Rasheed Odeh, Mr. Samer Asad Khalil Malalha

Abstract


The study aimed to design an electronic learning package to be delivered through the Internet and mobile phones to support students’ self-learning in mathematics for secondary schools, especially the scientific stream in Palestine. The major objective of this package is to raise their academic achievement in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study also aimed at investigating the impact of the e-learning package on improving the students’ academic achievement in math. To achieve these objectives, a constructivist and experimental approach was used as it suits the nature of the study. The sample consisted of 82 male and female students who were randomly divided into an experimental group of 42 male and female students and a control group of 40 male and female students. The study tools included an e-learning package that covered the fifth unit of math in the secondary school/ scientific stream entitled Definite Integration and Its Applications, and an achievement test to measure the students’ academic achievement. The findings of the study revealed the following: a statistically significant effect of using the e-learning package on the students’ academic achievement during the pandemic with a huge effect, a statistically significant difference between the average achievement scores of the experimental group and the control group due to gender, and an interaction between the method of education and gender.


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Electronic learning package; mathematics; secondary schools; COVID-19 pandemic.

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