The Effectiveness of a Proposed Instructional Program, based on the Hypothetical/Virtual reality, in Promoting Social Skills of 10th grade in Physics Subject.
The PhET simulation programme is considered one of the most innovative technologies in contemporary education that has a positive influence on students’ academic and social development. In the current quasi-experimental study, 44 tenth-grade students participated and were equally assigned to two gro...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Babylon Center for Humanities Studies Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 265 - 285 |
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Republic of Iraq Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research (MOHESR)
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