Student Teachers Planning Skills – Comparing Computer Assisted Learning with Traditional Face-to-Face Learning

The aim of the research was to compare the planning skills of student teachers who studied according to the computer assisted learning approach with those of student teachers who studied according to the traditional face-to-face learning approach.

Participants were second year student teachers. They submitted a unit plan and two lesson plans in one of the following four subjects: volleyball, football, basketball, and gymnastics. Instruments included an evaluation of the unit and the lesson plans.

Ten traditional and seven computerized unit plans, along with 17 traditional and 20 computerized lesson plans, were evaluated by two separate independent reviewers Results clearly pointed to an advantage towards the computer assisted learning approach over the traditional one. We concluded that learning in a computer assisted learning approach provides wide exposure of teaching material to the student teachers. In addition, working in a group demands cooperation and makes one`s efforts and products public, which enhances motivation for better preparation and therefore produces a higher quality of planning.