The effect of the use of smart boards in the teaching of high school 11 th grade human geography subjects on student success

The subject of the research is to examine the effect of using smart board on student achievement in teaching high school 11 th grade human geography subjects. In today's conditions, with the increase in the importance of technology in our lives, its use in education has also increased. With this research, the effect of the use of smart board, which is one of the most important technological tools used in the field of education, on student achievement in geography lessons was studied. In addition, it is aimed to observe the effect of the use of smart board in geography education on students' success in human geography. In the study, pre-test post-test experimental research model with control group was used to examine the effect of using smart board on student achievement in geography lessons. The research was conducted with 11th grade students in one of the secondary education institutions in Osmaniye province. The research was conducted with 4 11th grade classes and 110 students in total. 67 of the participants were girls and 43 were boys. In order to collect the necessary data for the statistical analysis of the sub-problems of the research; data were collected by applying the achievement test developed to determine the effect of the use of smart board on student achievement in the subjects of "Functions and Spheres of Influence of Cities and Population Policies and Settlement". The data obtained from the measurement tools used were transferred to the computer environment and evaluated using the SPSS statistical package programme. In addition, programmes such as Excel and Word were also used. Since the data were normally distributed, unrelated groups t-test was applied to compare the pre-test scores of the experimental and control groups. As a result of the research, it was determined that the use of smart board in geography lessons increased student achievement. The smart board we use in geography teaching has many contributions to geography education. It has many advantages in terms of appealing to the visual and auditory senses of the student, saving the lesson from mediocrity, providing visual content in situations where it is not possible to do field work, and showing the materials that cannot be brought to the classroom to the students in three dimensions. For this purpose, we can say that the use of smart board in geography lessons will contribute greatly to student success. For this reason, it should be preferred to use smart board instead of classical methods in geography lessons and to benefit from smart board applications and other opportunities it provides. Keywords: Geography, Geography Education, Educational Technology, Smart Board