The Impact of Designing a Virtual Training Environment on Developing Research Skills for Postgraduate Female Students at Najran University

Abstract

It is important to provide graduate students with the necessary research skills to ensure the quality of the information they use in their scientific research therefore, the current research aims to measure the effect of designing a virtual training environment on developing digital research skills among graduate students at Najran University. The experimental method was used by employing the quasi-experimental design to conduct the research. The sample consisted of 34 students. An achievement test was designed to measure the cognitive aspects and an observation card was prepared to measure the research performance skills in the digital environment. The results revealed the existence of statistically significant differences at the significance level of (α ≤ 0.01) between the mean scores of the pre and post-application for the achievement test and the observation card as a result of using the virtual training environment. The results also showed that the virtual training environment had a significant impact, according to the application of Blake's modified gain ratio, on developing digital research skills, and that the impact size of the virtual environment on developing students' digital research skills was more than (0.97).