Participants This study was conducted during 8th grade sciences lessons which constitute part of the curriculum sequence. The study was based on an experiment conducted with two middle school student groups consisting of 59 eighth grade students (two classes), learning a science unit using augmented reality smartphone technology, and their counterpart group which consisted of 57 eighth grade students (two classes) who learned the unit in a traditional manner.
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Based on the data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics, the socio-economic level of the locality where the students are living and where the school is located is ranked relatively high, namely 8 out of 10 (10 being the highest rank).