Traditional education, computer assisted education, systematic learning and achievement

Problem Statement: Computers are now being used more and more in education environments. Teachers, students and parents are engaged in learning activities backed by computers. Computer has become an indispensable instrument of educational settings. There are many researches asserting that computer facilitates learning. Meanwhile, traditional education is going on. There arc, many teachers using the traditional education approach in classes. In their opinion, traditional education too is instrumental in increasing chances of success. There are scientific data supporting this thesis as well. Systematic learning developed by Sonmez, on the other hand, differs from these two. Researches made over a period of 10 years suggest that this is an effective approach to learning-teaching further enhancing success. Research Question of Study: Are there significant differences among and within groups involved in traditional education, education by computer and systematic learning in terms of their total achievement averages? 1. Is there any significant difference within each of groups involved in traditional education, education by computer and systematic learning in terms of pre-test and post-test scores? 2. Are there significant differences among groups involved in traditional education, education by computer and systematic learning in terms of total achievement averages? Methods: Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are used together in this survey. Also, randomly selected pm-test and post-test control groups were used. There were three groups: in one systematic learning was experimented; while the second group was introduced education by computer the third group, which was the control group was given traditional education. 3 classes in from grade 3 in Yasemin Karakaya Primary School were randomly selected and, from this population, two groups were selected as experimental groups while the third was used as control group. Findings/Results: In both hypotheses a significant difference was found in favour of group subject to systematic learning. The total achievement average of the systematic learning group is significantly different from total achievement averages of both traditional education and computer assisted education groups. Based on this data, it can be concluded that systematic learning is more effective than both traditional education and computer assisted education. No significant difference was found between computer assisted education and traditional education. Conclusions/Recommendations: Practice of systematic learning should be demonstrated to each teacher in class environment and teachers should be guided in practicing it. While organizing education environments, opinions of teachers and students may be taken. New comparative studies on the effectiveness of systematic learning may be launched to cover different courses, classes and schools. Experimental surveys can be made on wider samples.