Effects of computer supported education materials students' attidutes and succes

In this research, the effect of a computer supported education material on students? attitudes and success in Biology lesson has been conducted.The experimental part of the research was performed in fall semestre of 2007-2008 school year. This research has been performed on a group of 105 students who are in 9-D and 9-E classes of Gazi Industrial High School (GATEM) and 9-A and 9-E classes of Gazi Çiftliği High School in Yenimahalle, ANKARA. These students, who have similar lesson grades, have been divided by draw into two, experimental and control groups. The control group was educated traditionally while computer supported educational material made by means of Adobe Flash 8 program was applied to experimental group.In order to gather the data, ?Biology Success Test? was used for measuring knowledge of students and ?Biology Lesson Attitude Scale? developed by Geban (1991) was used as pre-test and post-test for measuring attitudes of students towards the lesson. Data gathered from the research was analyzed with ?t test? and evaluated by SPSS 11 program. Survey results have shown that students in experimental group have significant development in their academic success towards Biology Lesson compared to the students in control group. However we couldn?t see any significant difference in their attitudes towards Biology Lesson. (according to p=0,05). In addition to these results, data gathered from the research on students of Gazi Çiftliği High School showed us that gender of the students had no effects on success or attitude towards Biology Lesson.Key Words: Computer supported education, computer supported education materials, biology education, succes and attidue, vertabrate animals.