The effect of using a virtual laboratory in teaching chemistry on academic achievement and attitudes towards chemistry among third year secondary students

Abstract

This study sought to investigate the effect of the use of the Virtual Laboratory on academic achievement and attitudes toward chemistry, and study sample consisted of 104 students from the third grade secondary general education students, the study sample was divided into two groups, the first experimental studied experiments using the Virtual Laboratory, and other a control studied using traditional laboratory experiments.

To collect the necessary study data prepared Achievement Test also prepared a measure of attitudes toward chemistry, and showed the achievement test results of the lack of statistically significant differences between the average performance of the experimental and control groups, the significance level (α = 0.05), but the average of the experimental group is higher than the control group, while the results of the posttest measure of trends and significant differences between the mean trends of the experimental and control groups showed a significance level (α = 0.05), in favor of the experimental group.