Journal of Education & Social Policy

The Effect of Using Web Quests on Improving Seventh Grade Female Students' Writing Skills in Southern AL-Mazar Directorate of Education
Prof. Majid Mohammad AL-Khataybeh, Asmaa Salem AL-Awasa

Abstract
The Effect of Using Web Quest on Improving Seventh Grade Female Students' Writing Skills in Southern ALMazar Directorate of Education. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of using Web Quest on improving seventh grade female students' writing skills in southern AL-Mazar of education. To achieve the purpose of the study, a pre-post test was constructed to measure students' achievement in writing skills of 11 items on English language. The sample of the study comprised (100) seventh grade female students who were randomly selected from three schools, and was distributed into two groups: the control group (30) female students which was taught using the conventional method and two experimental group; the first group was (35) female students who were trained for (2 hours) and the second group was (35) female students who were trained for (4 hours) on using web quest. The findings of the study indicated that there were statistically significant differences at (a =0.01) between the experimental group and the control group in favor of experimental group, and there were statistically significant differences at (a =0.01) between the (two hours) and (four hours) at experimental group in favor of the (four hours). In light of the findings of the study, the researchers suggested the following recommendations; the need to apply the Web Quests in the educational process in the Jordanian schools and the need to training teachers in how to use the Web Quests and its application in the educational process.

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