The effectiveness of technology enabled active learning (TEAL)with its combined approach on the motivation of academic achievement in Smart Schools

It is essential to combine the methods based on ICT in school curriculum, given the emergence of new learning environments, such as smart schools, the fundamental transformation in education, as well as the need for preparing students to enter the knowledge-based society and along with scientific and technological literacy. Learning is a combination of technology and it is based on multimedia in smart schools. The TEAL is an active, problem-centered, and research-based teaching method with a combined approach, which is a combination of group exploring methods in the laboratory, lecture and simulation. The purpose of current study was to investigate the effect of TEAL on the motivation of academic achievement among students of the eighth grade of smart schools in the academic year of 2016-17 compared to the inactive and common method in these schools. This is a quasi-experimental study and the objective are practical. The statistical population of the study included all female students in the eighth grade of smart schools in Shirvan County and included 60 students in three groups: control and experiment. The samples were selected using multistage cluster sampling and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups; then, the first experimental group used TEAL method and the second experimental group used technology enabled method and they were trained for 12 sessions. The research tools was Herman s achievement motivation questionnaire. The results showed that TEAL has a positive effect on the motivation of academic achievement in smart schools; also, TEAL has more positive effect on the motivation of academic achievement than the technology enabled method

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Technology enabled active learning (TEAL) method ، Combined Learning ، Smart Schools ، Academic Achievement Motivation