The effect of using a smart board on the level of motivation and sustainability of elementary school students' math lessons

The smart board is one of the latest educational technologies with a lot of capabilities, which provides teachers with the possibility of creating attractive, new and diverse educational methods and increases educational motivation and stability. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of using smart board on the level of motivation and sustainability of learning math lessons of sixth grade students in the 19th education district of Tehran.

The research method is quasi-experimental with a control group. The statistical population of all elementary school students in Tehran and the sample size is 140 (two classes of boys and two classes of girls). Considering the type of study and data collection tool, 4 classes were randomly selected from among 10 boys and girls sixth grade classes. In order to measure the motivation component, Toan et al.'s (2005) standard learning motivation questionnaire was used. This questionnaire is standard and its validity and reliability have been confirmed in Tuan, Chin and Shi's research in 2005.

The results showed that the learning motivation of the experimental group who used the smart board increased by 5.97 units compared to the control group, and the learning stability of the experimental group increased by 1.95 compared to the control group. According to the equation of the regression coefficient, the adjusted coefficient of determination shows that the variables of smart board and learning motivation explain 0.40 of the variance of learning sustainability.

There is a significant positive correlation between the motivation to learn and the use of the smart board (p=0.46) and between the sustainability of learning and the smart board (p=0.41).