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RESEARCH PAPER
Effectiveness of virtual laboratories on developing expert thinking and decision-making skills among female school students in Palestine
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Faculty of Education, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza Strip, PALESTINE
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Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza Strip, PALESTINE
3
Directorate of Education-East Gaza, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Gaza Strip, PALESTINE
Publication date: 2022-12-12
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2022;18(12):em2199
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
The virtual laboratory is considered one of the latest technologies in the field of education that
aims to develop the educational skills of students such 100 hundred school students from a public
all-girl primary school in east Gaza were divided into two groups to participate in a quasi-experimental study. Each group completed a particular pre- and post-tests for expert thinking
and decision-making skills. The results showed that students in the experimental group were
significantly higher than students in the control group in the total mean score of the expert
thinking test (27.89 versus 12.47; p=0.001, η
2=0.71). A comparison of the pre-post score for the
expert thinking test showed a significant improvement in students’ performance (p=0.001). The
post scores for the decision-making scale showed a significant difference between students in the
control group and the experimental group (p=0.001). The total mean score of the decision-making
scale in the experimental group in the post-scale (82.32±10.87) was significantly higher than the
pre-scale score (70.85±9.80) (p=0.001). It could be concluded that using virtual laboratory and
simulation applications had a positive impact on improving students’ scientific knowledge,
scientific process, decision-making ability and developing expert thinking skills.
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