Students reported technical difficulties with Edmodo more than financial ones, with the small mobile screen and slow internet the top challenges¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Technical challenges scored 72% agreement and financial challenges 53%; the small-sized screen of Edmodo Mobile drew 66% agreement and slow-speed mobile internet 47%. → Al-Kathiri 2014

Evidence¶

Al-Kathiri 2014¶

Fatimah Al-Kathiri. (2014). Beyond the Classroom Walls: Edmodo in Saudi Secondary School EFL Instruction, Attitudes and Challenges. English Language Teaching, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v8n1p189

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Descriptive analysis of the six-item challenges scale completed by the 21 experimental-group students. The article reports technical difficulties ranked first (72.3%) and financial difficulties second (53.9%); no inferential test is printed.

"Table 8 shows that technical challenges score 72% of students' agreement whereas financial ones score 53%."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Access — outcome: instruction changes it

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