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In this study, the effect of using interactive infographic on academic achievement in social studies teaching is being researched. Participants of the study, which was used as a pretest posttest control group quasi-experimental design, consisted of 42 6th grade students in two different class in Belekçihan Secondary School located in Akdağmadeni District of Yozgat province. Groups were assigned by simple random sampling method which is one of the random sampling methods. One of the classes was determined as the experimental group and the other as the control group. While determining the experimental and control groups for the application, the availability of the classes, the readiness levels of the students and their educational status were taken into consideration. The achievement test used by the research was developed by the researchers and the item difficulty and discrimination indices of the developed test were calculated with ITEMAN 3.0 software. In the analysis of the data collected in the study, IBM SPSS 23.0 package program was used. The independent samples t-test and repeated measures for two-way analysis of variance were used for analyzing the datum. Significance of research data was evaluated at 0.05 significance level. According to the results obtained from the research, it is seen that the use of interactive infographic in social studies teaching has a positive effect on academic achievement, social studies teachers and social studies teacher candidates should be informed about the preparation of interactive infographics, different studies should be done about the use of interactive infographics in different subjects and their contribution to the teaching process in teaching social studies lesson.

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