Abstract
<p style="text-align:justify">The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Personalized Book Advice Smart Application on secondary school students’ motivation as well as determining the views of students, teachers, and parents regarding the application. In the research, a mixed method approach, in which quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis methods are used together, was adopted. In the quantitative part, 585 secondary school students, 300 of whom are in the experimental group and 285 in the control group; In the qualitative part, 105 students, 6 teachers and 247 families were included in the research. Similarly, the qualitative of the study involved 105 students, 6 teachers, and 247 parents. In the quantitative part of the research, data collected with the Reading Motivation Scale developed by Durmus. In the qualitative part, the data were collected through a questionnaire. The quantitative data were analyzed using parametric descriptive statistics, while the qualitative data were analyzed using descriptive analysis technique. According to the findings obtained from the research, there is a significant difference in reading motivation of secondary school students in terms of post-test scores. It is seen that the students like to read adventure books and think that the books proposed by the application are suitable for their interests. Teachers state that they find the application successful, and they like that the application forms reading habits, and recommends books according to their interests, moreover, the recommended books are suitable for the students’ levels. On the other hand, the teachers think that teacher control is necessary. Additionally, parents state that they like the application because it recommends books according to the children’s interests and those recommended books were suitable for their levels, however, they added that the number of the books needs to be increased.</p>
Highlights
In today’s world following the developments in the world, acquisition of the new information and experiences, development of an innovative viewpoint, self-development in all fields, learning how to adapt the existing knowledge to the novel situations, finding practical solutions in different situations, and more importantly learning how to access knowledge and update the knowledge as well as having the ability to understand and interpret the knowledge can only be possible through reading
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effectiveness of the Personalized Book Advice Smart Application (KOP-KITApp) application on reading motivation, the application determines the reading levels of students and suggests books to the students according to their interests
It is known that secondary school students are affected by others; they chose books based on teacher or peer recommendation, or what they hear about the books
Summary
In today’s world following the developments in the world, acquisition of the new information and experiences, development of an innovative viewpoint, self-development in all fields, learning how to adapt the existing knowledge to the novel situations, finding practical solutions in different situations, and more importantly learning how to access knowledge and update the knowledge as well as having the ability to understand and interpret the knowledge can only be possible through reading. Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study defined the reading skill as “An individual’s understanding, using, thinking on and dealing with written texts in order to take part in the society, develop his potential and knowledge and reach his aims.” (Ministry of National Education (MoNE), 2016). In the 2015 PISA National Preliminary Report it can be seen that reading skill is considered as a concept further than just analyzing and understanding, and it is handled in a wider perspective rather than limiting it to the approach of the reader to the texts and the purpose behind the reader’s use of the text, and accessing practical information, but covering a wide and comprehensive perspective including the understanding of thinking and existence ways (MoNE, 2016)
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