Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

• Zahra Kargar Shouroki ¹
• Hossain Hassani ²
• Kazem Barzegar Bafrooei ³

¹ Master of Curriculum Development,, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.

Abstract

Background and Objectives: Since teaching is one of the important pillars of students' education, the use of new teaching methods can bring a special attraction for students, and since interest and attention to some extent can affect the emotions in a person's external behavior, teachers, in order to be able to to achieve the goals of the education system, must be equipped with the latest teaching methods and all kinds of teaching methods. In recent years, with the advancement of technology and its effects on the learning environment, the tendency to use multimedia or web-based teaching methods (video, audio and text) has increased. The use of new technologies, computers, the Internet, gamification of education, showing animations by teachers and the integration of audio-visual media, especially the broadcasting of complementary educational animations, have been welcomed by teachers and students. Therefore, the main goal of this research was to investigate the effect of animation-based teaching on creative thinking and academic emotions of the sixth-grade female students in the academic year of 2023-2024.
Methods: The current research design was a quantitative approach and a pre-test-post-test semi-experimental design with a control group. The current research population included all the sixth-grade female students of Yazd (6957 individuals). The sample of the current research was according to the experimental research and consisted of 60 students who were selected via available sampling method and were randomly and equally divided into two experimental and control groups of 30 students. The experimental group underwentfourteen  45-minute sessions of educational interventions, and the control group learned these topics in the traditional way. The data collection tools were Abedi's creative thinking questionnaires (2008) and Pakran et al.'s (2002) academic emotions. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients for these questionnaires in the present study were obtained as 0.83 and 0.88, indicating acceptable reliability. In order to analyze the data in this research, SPSS25 software and univariate and multivariate covariance analysis were used.
Findings: The findings of this research showed that animation-based teaching had a positive and significant effect on increasing creative thinking (fluidity, flexibility, innovation and expansion) as well as increasing positive academic emotions and reducing negative academic emotions of the sixth-grade female students. Based on the eta coefficient, the fluidity component accounted for an impact and difference of 58%, the flexibility component accounted for an impact and difference of 43%, the innovation component accounted for an impact and difference of 49%, the expansion component accounted for an impact and difference of 39%, and the overall score of creative thinking accounted for an impact and difference of 56%. Additionally, the positive academic emotions dimension accounted for an impact and difference of 28%, while the negative academic emotions dimension accounted for an impact and difference of 54%.
Conclusion: It can be said that animation can have positive effect such as personality development and talent development, creating flexible and closed creative thinking and expanding worldview, strengthening the taste for innovation, teaching complex concepts and generalizing them, transferring culture, etc. As a result, presenting animations in teaching can be used as a tool to reduce negative academic emotions in students and a field for the development of their creative thinking. It is suggested that teachers organize the content in the implementation of the curriculum by presenting animations in such a way that it is the basis for creative thinking and by creating opportunities for questioning, they ask the learners to explore the facts.

Keywords

• Animation
• Creative thinking
• Emotions
• Teaching

Main Subjects

• Technology-based learning environments

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