The effects of traditional online and individual cooperative homework on undergraduate students` academic achievement and attitude towark homework

In this study, the effects of traditional-online and individual-cooperative homework practiceson undergraduate students? academic success and attitudes towards homework was studied.The subject groups of the research consists of 58 students chosen from Computer andInstructional Technologies Education Department of Education Faculty of AnadoluUniversity at first term of 2004-2005 who were enrolled BTO201 Programming Languages I.In equalized groups semi-experimental model was used in this research. The groups wererandomly assigned for determine at groups at the beginning of the research, those in A sectionwas taken to traditional homework practices, those in B section was taken to onlinehomework practices. In each class consisting of 29 students, 14 students prepared theirhomework individually, and the rest 15 students prepared their homework cooperatively.Participants answered Homework Attitude Scale at the beginning and at the end of theexperimental process. Also, they participated in the Success Scale at the beginning of theexperimental process and 2 months after the experiment.SPSS 10.0 program was used in the statistical analysis of data collected. For within groupcomparisions two-way ANOVA and repeated measures ANOVA were used and .05 wasaccepted as the level of significance.After the analysis of the data, the following findings were taken:There were no significant differences between the academic information level of students•who participated in traditional homework practices and online homework practices; andwho participated in individual homework practices and cooperative homework practices.In terms of the level of academic information, there were significant differences in favor•of the online individual homework practices group with traditional individual homeworkpractices group and online cooperative homework practices group.There were no significant differences between the attitudes towards homework level of•students who participated in traditional homework practices and online homeworkpractices; and who participated in individual homework practices and cooperativehomework practices.As a result; the online individual homework practices might effect student?s academicachievement. Traditional-online and individual-cooperative homework practices were notsuperior to one another as far as attitudes towards homework was considered.