The Effect of the Use of Educational Informatics Network (EBA) in Science Lesson on the Secondary School Students’ Academic Achievement

In Turkey, Ministry of National Education launched the FAT？H Project (Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving Technology Project) in 2011; an educational e-content platform called Educational Informatics Network (EBA) was developed within the scope of this project. This study aims at investigating the effect of teaching the topic of the Human Circulatory System with EBA in science lesson of 6th grade on elementary students’ achievement. An experimental study was carried out in accordance with the "pre-test / post-test model with control group". The students taking the lesson with EBA content formed the experimental group, while the students taking the lesson with the new primary education program formed the control group. In the study, the two experimental groups were created in this study by using random assignment, and the pre-test was administered to all subjects in both groups before teaching while the post-test was administered to all subjects in both groups after teaching. In the study, whether there is a meaningful difference between scores of the students taking the lesson with EBA content and the students taking the lesson with the new primary education program was investigated. The study group consisted of 56 6th grade students (experimental group: 29, control group: 27) from an elementary school located in the Mente？e district of Mu？la province. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS packet program. As a result of the study findings, it was found that the students in the experimental group were more successful than those in the control group after implementing EBA platform contents. In line with these findings, it was concluded that the use of technology-supported EBA in educational environments is an effective way in increasing the elementary students’ academic achievements