The aim of this study is to determine the effect of using computer simulation on students’ performance in teaching and learning physical science, particularly the electrical Ohm’s law. A sample of 182 students classified into two groups–experimental (92) and control (90)–from two middle schools in Meknes city (one in the rural area and the other urban area) was the subject of a pretest and posttest evaluation. The outcomes of the administered test to both groups of students, control and experimental, were compared and analyzed using Student’s t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The results obtained suggest that the experimental group register the best performances after the posttest than the control group (). While no difference, in terms of performance, was signed according to gender in the experimental group (), the urban students were more successful than the rural ones, with and without the use of simulations. In this respect, this study recommended using and practicing simulation software to improve and develop the performance of middle school students.

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使用计算机模拟对学生在物理教学中的表现的影响：是否存在性别和区域差异？

这项研究的目的是确定使用计算机模拟对学生在物理科学（尤其是电欧姆定律）教学中的表现的影响。来自梅克内斯市两所中学（一个在农村地区，另一个在城市地区）的182名学生分为实验组（92）和对照组（90）的样本，这是测试前和测试后的评估对象。使用学生t检验和带有社会科学统计软件包（SPSS）的Mann-Whitney U检验，对两组学生（包括对照组和实验组）的管理测试结果进行了比较和分析。获得的结果表明，实验组在测试后的表现优于对照组（）。实验组中，根据性别，虽然在表现方面没有差异（），无论是否使用模拟，城市学生比农村学生更成功。在这方面，本研究建议使用和练习模拟软件来改善和发展中学生的表现。