The effect of intellectual scaffolding on educational management in the application of new educational technologies on academic motivation and academic achievement in science courses for female students in the fifth grade of elementary school

Abstract

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the "scale" of the effect of intellectual scaffolding on educational management in the application of new educational technologies on academic motivation and academic achievement in the science course for fifth grade elementary school girls. The study method was quasi-experimental. The statistical population included fifth grade elementary school girls in Districts 1 and 2 of Tehran. The sample size was 297 students based on the Morgan Curriculum Table, of which 148 in the experimental group and 149 in the control group. The measuring instrument was Harter's Educational Motivation Questionnaire (1981). After pre-test, model of management education based on the scaffold rational management of training in the use of new technologies training in science for experimental and traditional teaching methods applied to the control group, and at the end of the test both control and experimental groups were controled. The results of t-test showed that the intellectual scaffolding of educational management in the application of new educational technologies is effective on motivation and academic achievement in the science course of fifth grade elementary school girls (p <0.01). The results of this study showed that this teaching model is applicable to increase motivation and academic achievement in science.

Keywords

• educational management model
• academic motivation
• academic achievement