Energy concept taught using ICT

A new curriculum together with a novel educational software was designed and developed to teach the physical concept of energy. The software design has been previously discussed while the educational trial to examine the suitability of this new material followed. In this educational trial, 3 groups of students of various age participated. Experimental Group A was taught the subject with the aid of the novel software, experimental group B was taught the same curriculum without the use of the software, while group C served as control group and had not followed any special teaching except the one provided by the conventional education at school. In the present study a comparison will be made between the results obtained from the experimental group and those of the control group. The study focuses, therefore, on how well the newly developed curriculum (-as contained in the new software) prepares the students on the subjects taught and tested, and whether or not this teaching is more successful than the conventional one.