The role of the educational platform "My School Platform" and its impact on stimulating self-learning and academic excellence of the students at middle and high night schools

Abstract

The current study aimed to identify the impact and role of the educational platform “My School Platform” in stimulating self-learning and academic excellence among students in night schools for the intermediate and secondary stages in Dammam and western Riyadh, where the number of the sample reached (537) students for the second semester of the academic year 2020/2021. The descriptive approach was used and the study tool was applied after verifying the validity and reliability. The results concluded that there is an impact and a role for the educational platform in stimulating self-learning and academic excellence with an arithmetic average of (4.38) that falls within the "strongly agree" response according to the responses of the study sample. The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences for the secondary educational stage variable in motivating self-learning and academic excellence, and there were statistically significant differences for the technical experience variable in dealing with the educational platform “My School Platform” in stimulating self-learning and academic excellence in favor of learners who have high experience in Technical skills. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences due to the success rate in the first semester in stimulating self-learning and academic excellence. The study recommended the necessity of continuing to use the educational platform “My School Platform: for all educational levels.