Investigating Effectiveness of Multimedia Software -Based Citizenship Education on Increasing Citizenship Awareness of 8 Year-Old Children

The current study was conducted with the aim of investigating effectiveness of multimedia software -based citizenship education on increasing citizenship awareness of 8 year-old children. The method used in this study was semi-empirical with pretest and posttest and two testing (boys and girls) and control groups (boys and girls). he statistical population of the study was composed of all male and female primary school students of Isfahan city in grade 2 who was over than 26572 people from which two male and female schools were chosen by random cluster sampling. Then, two classes were chosen as test group and control group among grade 2 classes in both schools. After the pretest for both groups, test group (boys and girls) was trained for 5 weeks by using multimedia of citizenship culture education. At the end of period, both groups were also tested. Data collecting tools used in this research was the combination of 5 fields including national identity, religious teachings, an introduction on rules and regulations, social relations and behavior and protecting environment whose validity was verified by teachers and consultants and several teachers of grade 2 and its stability was estimated 0.85 using classification method. The study findings showed that there is difference in pretest and posttest scores of the participants in both male and female groups in all aspects of training. Also, the results indicate that effect of multimedia software based citizenship education on male group is more than female one. These trainings have also had the most effect on protecting environment and the lowest effect on religious teachings.