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Effects of the Integrated Online Advance Organizer Teaching Materials on Students’ Science Achievement and Attitude

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This two-group quasi-experimental study investigated the effects of the Online Advance Organizer Concept Teaching Material (ONACOM) integrated with inquiry teaching and expository teaching methods. Grade 7 students’ posttest performances on the light unit achievement and light unit attitude tests controlled for gender, previous semester science grade, and pretest scores were analyzed. No significant treatment effects were found between the inquiry and expository approaches. However, both groups demonstrated significant pretest–posttest gains in achievement and attitude. Independent from the method used, ONACOM was judged effective in both groups as students demonstrated increased achievement and attitude scores. ONACOM has a social and semantic network-aided infrastructure that can be adapted to both methods to increase students’ achievement and improve their attitude.

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We would like to thank The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (Project Number 113K319) for its financial support. The authors would also like to express their deep appreciation to Professor Larry Yore (University of Victoria) for his valuable conceptual editing and Shari Yore for her technical editing.

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  1. Department of Elementary Education, Faculty of Education, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, 15030, Burdur, Turkey

    Fikret Korur

  2. Department of Digital Game Design, School of Cinematic Arts, İpek University, 06550, Ankara, Turkey

    Sacip Toker

  3. Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, Middle East Technical University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

    Ali Eryılmaz

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All procedures performed in this study involving students and teachers were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University with the date February 22, 2013, and document #352.

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Korur, F., Toker, S. & Eryılmaz, A. Effects of the Integrated Online Advance Organizer Teaching Materials on Students’ Science Achievement and Attitude. J Sci Educ Technol 25, 628–640 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-016-9618-4

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