COMPARISONS OF EFFECTS OF STUDENT AND TEACHER PREPARED SCREENCASTS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

The goal of this study was comparisons of effects of student and teacher prepared screencasts about Photoshop graphics editor on student achievement, during the spring 2013 semester Computer course. To achieve this goal, pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was used to compare two groups. Sample was composed 74 participants and they were divided into a control group and an experimental group. Students prepared all the screencasts in the experimental group and instructor prepared the screencasts in the control group. As a result of this study, it was concluded that achievement scores of the experimental group who prepared their own screencasts were higher than the control group whose screencasts were prepared by the instructor.