Printed Material and Digital Media in Teaching of History: Presence and Level of Frequency of Use in the Classroom
Nicolás Martínez-Valcárcel, Martha Ortega-Roldán & Ramón García-Marín
Abstract
This work is focused on the use and relationships between textbooks of History of Spain, the teacher’s notesmaterials, digital media and socio-cultural resources. It is a non-experimental descriptive study; the sample was carried out by cluster sampling and quotas over 136 teaching public and private centres in the 2014-2016 courses. Ninety students in the 2º year of High School from 53 Secondary Educative centres, located in 23 localities of the Autonomous Community of Region of Murcia. The information was collected through two questionnaires and the documents (manuals and notes) that the students used in their classes. The analysis includes the study of the presence, frequency and the students’ valuations about the use of these means. The results show that the use of the teachers’ notes-materials, the digital and the socio-cultural media are almost in 100% of the statements but with a different frequency of use in the classrooms. The textbook is 37.74% in the classroom; however, the students’ use it in 52.83%, because some of them have it at home even though it is not recommended