The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of using digital science textbook on the academic achievement and scientific attitude in elementary science learning. For this study, sixty-one elementary elementary school students in 4th grade w...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of using digital science textbook on the academic achievement and scientific attitude in elementary science learning. For this study, sixty-one elementary elementary school students in 4th grade were observed for about two months. The authors divided them into two groups; experimental and comparative. the experimental group used digital science textbook and the comparative group used paper science textbook. To verify the effect of using digital science textbook on the academic achievement and scientific attitude, the independent t-test was carried out. And four students were interviewed to find out the awareness of digital textbooks, according to academic achievement. The results of this study were as follows. First, the experimental group showed a significant improvement in the academic achievement about scientific knowledge compared with the comparative group. Second, the experimental group was improved openness and cooperativeness among the detailed elements of the scientific attitude compared with the comparative group. Finally, the students who were the low level of academic ability thought positively of digital textbooks.