The research instruments developed in the following manner; the researchers developed a
pool of multiple choice (4 choices for each question) questions for the unit that has to be
taught during the experiment period. The pool of questions was crosschecked by three other
teachers of social studies. Taking into consideration their criticism, some of the questions
were omitted (8 in total) and some question added (2 in total) to make sure content validity
has been reached. There were 40 questions left for the pilot study. The achievement tests (and
attitude scales) were piloted with 120 pupils. After running test for reliability and difficulty
for the items, there were 30 questions were left. Exactly the same procedures were followed
for the attitude measurement tests. The only differences were that the item pool consulted byexperts was other social studies researchers rather than teachers, and the number of the items
were varying from test to test. After piloting all the research tools reliability of social studies
achievement test is .84 Cronbach’s Alpha. Reliability of social studies attitude measurement
scale is .89 Cronbach’s Alpha. Reliability of the ICT attitude measurement scale is .97
Cronbach’s Alpha. The data was collected both at the beginning (pre-test) and the end (posttest) of the application from both experiment and control groups through these instruments.
Data was subjected to mean, one way ANOVA and Regression analysis.