Examining the Effect of Multimedia Teaching of Praying on Cognitive, Emotional and Psychomotor Characteristics of Elementary School Female Students

This study aims at examining the effect of multimedia teaching of praying on cognitive, emotional and psychomotor skills in third grade female students. The research method was semi-experimental and enjoyed pretest-posttest with control group. The samples included 60 students in the third grade of elementary school in Kermanshah Education District 1 (in academic year of 2017-2018). These samples were selected through continence sampling from two classes. They were divided randomly in two groups of 30. Data gathering was done through questionnaire. The validity was confirmed by experts. The reliability was also confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. The questionnaire, first, were distributed among samples for pretest. The experimental group then received multimedia training for 35 days in ten sessions of one hour. After training, both groups were re-tested. Data were analyzed through covariance analysis using SPSS software. Results showed that there was a significant difference (P <0.01) in the mean scores of cognitive, emotional, and psychomotor skills in the experimental group at post-test. According to the results, multimedia training can be considered as an appropriate and effective way of acquiring students' cognitive, emotional and psychomotor skills.