Abstract
The purpose of this study is to find out the impact of using multimedia on students’ aca-demic achievement in the College of Education at King Saud University. This study’s effort is to answer the following questions: What is the impact of using multimedia on students’ academic achievement in the ‘‘com-puter & its use in education’’ curriculum? Are there any statistically-significant differences between the average marks of the experi-mental group & that of the control group in the pre & post measurements of students’ aca-demic achievement in the school of Education?To this end, an experiment of two equivalent groups was designed, one of the groups is exper-imental & the other is control; each of them consists of 20 female students. The lecture was given to the first group using a computer presentation program which uses multimedia trea-ted as an experimental group, while the second group was given the same lecture using the traditional method which uses the dialog & discussion technique treated as a control group.Both groups were subjected to pre & post tests in the subject tackled by the lecture. The anal-ysis result of the pre test showed no statistically-significant differences, which in turn proves the equivalence of the two groups. Meanwhile, the analysis result of the post test showed the
following:There are statistically-significant differences between the experimental group and the control group at a significance level of 0.05 for the interest of the experimental group. 42 a 2012 King Saud University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.