Abstract:

Changing and evolving information technology has become the indispensable material of today's education field. At the beginning of the computer-based information technologies that will be used in the social studies courses within the education process, the virtual tour technology which attracts the students' attention comes to the students. Designing, implementing and evaluating virtual tour applications in a way to serve the objectives of social studies course will increase both the effectiveness of the technology used and the achievement of the course gains in a more effective way for the student. Virtual tour technology, which provides students with a more effective, lasting, enjoyable and colorful presentation of social studies course subjects, makes the learning teaching process more efficient with student centered activities. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of virtual tour applications in social studies teaching. In order to evaluate the effect of virtual tour applications in the study, in the field of cultural and heritage learning in the 7th grade social studies lesson, the travel unit in Turkish history is discussed. The experimental method was used to reach the goal. In the research, the academic achievement scale was applied to the experimental and control groups as a pre-test and post-test, in order to measure the academic success of the students on virtual tour applications. The academic achievement scale consisted of 20 multiple choice questions selected from the Ministry of National Education's achievement tests in order to be eligible for social studies. The collected data were converted to statistical data in SPSS 21 program.

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