THE EFFECT OF THE USE OF MULTIMEDIA ON ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND MOTIVATION

The purpose of this research is to examine whether the learning environment created by multimedia design has an influence on the fourth-grade students’ academic success, motivation, and the retention of the learned information. In this study, pre-test post-test experimental design with control group was used. The research was conducted on a total of thirty-five students in the fourth grade at a primary school in the central district of Bitlis. At the beginning of the study, “Motivation Scale" developed by Balantekin and Oksal, and “Academic Success Scale” developed by the researcher were applied to both groups (to the experimental and control group) as pre-tests. The same scales were used as post-tests in both groups at the end of the four-week experiment period. The SPSS program was used to analyze the data. In the analysis of the sub-problems, percentage, frequency, arithmetic mean and standard deviation were calculated, and two-factor ANOVA (repeated measures) was used for repeated measures on a single factor. The results of the study showed that the students’ academic success, motivation and retention scores differed significantly in favor of the experimental group