The Effect of an Online Teaching Approach on Students’ Acquisition of Social Studies Skills at the Intermediate Stage in Kuwait

Abstract

This study investigates an online model’s effect on students’ acquisition of social studies skills. The study sample consisted of forty-seven ninth-grade students divided into two groups, an experimental group and a control group. A five-week teaching program covered the main task and social studies objective. The semi-experimental method was used, where the traditional method was applied to the control group students, and the online approach was used with the experimental group students. Both groups completed a pre-test and post-test, which were analyzed statistically using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program. In addition, the researcher designed an achievement test that measures how students of the two groups acquire these skills. This study showed the superiority of the online approach in providing students with social studies skills. Therefore, the study recommended using the online approach to teach ninth-grade students social studies skills © Common Ground Research Networks, Maadi Mahdi Alajmi, Some Rights Reserved, (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)