M.A. Thesis:

impact of using informative and social networks on academic achievement in secondary students' culture and art lesson of sabzevar in 96-97 educational year

The purpose of this study has been investigating the effect of the use of social and informational networks on academic achievement in the culture and art lesson on secondary students of Sabzevar in 96-97 educational year. This is an applied research of a causal-comparative nature. The samples of this project were all students on secondary students of Sabzevar in 96-97 educational year. Sample size was selected according the researchers and sampling method was clustered. At first, two girls 'high schools and two boys' high schools were randomly selected from among the schools. Selected High Schools were Shahid Beheshti boys 'high school (brilliant talents) and Imam Hussein boys' high school and Mehrad Nassiri girls high school and Pouyagaran girls high school. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. The three-part researcher-made questionnaire was developed based on a review of the literature. The first part is about demographic characteristics. The 8 questions of the second part relate to the use of social networks and the third part contains 19 questions. There are 5 options that give students feedback on the benefits of social networking in the form of fully agreeable, agreeable, Opinion, Opposition, and Quite Opposed. Data were analyzed by SPSS16 software and using One-way analysis of variance and Tukey's test. The results show that social and information networks is effective on academic achievement of culture and art lesson on male students as well as female students of secondary students of Sabzevar in 96-97 educational year. However, there was no significant difference between educational achievement of male and female students of Sabzevar secondary school.

Keywords: academic achievement, culture and arts lessons, social and informational networks