Education Achievement by Social Network Case Study Introduction Database Subject

Abstract

The purpose of this research were 1) To using the social network Facebook in every lesson in Introduction Database 2) To examine the difference of the achievement in Introduction Database used by the experimental group and control group. The sample grouped was 76 students who studied Introduction Database in the first semester in academic year 2011. The research instruments included the used of social network Facebook. The statistic devices used for data analysis were mean, percentage, standard deviation and t-test.
The results showed that 1) The students’ learning achievement in control group and experimental group were not different at 0.05 level of statistical difference and it was not conducive to the set-up hypothesis. 2) The achievement of the experiment group was higher than the control group (88%) and it was conducive to the set-up hypothesis.