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Integration of WebQuest in a social studies course and motivation of pre-service teachers

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  title={Integration of WebQuest in a social studies course and motivation of pre-service teachers},
  author={Erdoğan Halat and Fatih Karakuş and Afyon Kocatepe},
  year={2014},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:13199673}
}
The study indicated that there was a statistically significant difference found in the participants’ motivation between treatment and control groups favoring the treatment group, and students who designed WebQuest-based applications during the course showed greater motivational performance than students who did not.
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