ABSTRACT

Computer technologies, which people encounter in every section of their lives in the 21st century, give rise to several significant changes in the individual and social life. One of the fields which is influenced by the computer technologies is certainly education. It is argued that the use of the computer technologies in many studies conducted academically will yields positive results in all fields for the realization education and teaching. However, when the fields, domains of interest, aim, methods and the material are taken into consideration, it can be argued that geography can benefit from the development brought by the computer technologies more than any other disciplines. In the present study, the effects of interactive map test software, emerging from the joint use of maps, which constitute a significant place in the geography education and computer technologies on the academic success of the learners were investigated. The sample group of the study is 152 university students taking Turkish Geography and Geopolitics in the department of Classroom Teaching in Faculty of Education in 2013-2014 educational terms in Cumhuriyet University. SPSS 18.0 program was used for the analysis of the data collected in the present study. The obtained data were analyzed by means of two-way analysis of variance for there surveys and of t test for independent samples. According to the findings of the study, it can be suggested that the use of interactive map tests in geography teaching improves the academic success of the learners.