Studies Evaluating the Effectiveness of IWB on Students' and Teachers’ Outcomes
Liliana Mata, Faculty of Sciences, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau (Romania)
Iuliana Lazar, Faculty of Engineering, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau (Romania)
Gabriel Lazar, Faculty of Engineering, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau (Romania)
Abstract
In recent years there is an increasing of studies based on the integration of interactive whiteboard in teaching and learning activities to improve academic results and other psychological development processes. This study aimed to analyze the current research focused on investigating the impact of interactive whiteboard IWB use on students’ and teachers' outcomes. There are identified two categories of studies: one related to assessment of the influence of IWB integration on students' outcomes and another to study the effect of IWB use on teachers' outcomes under various aspects, focusing on pedagogical issues. The analysis of these studies showed the prevalence of the researches which aim at investigating the impact of IWB use on student learning outcomes. The research that have as an objective to determine the IWB integration effect on the development of teachers' outcomes are very few and mainly aim at improving technological skills. On the other side, the results of qualitative methods based on documentary research revealed that most of the studies predominantly concentrates on the use of IWB as modern technology to improve student learning informative aspects, and less on developing formative aspects of student learning.
Keywords: interactive whiteboard, students, teachers, technological skills