The Impact of a Mobile Museum (MM) App on 10th Grade Students’ Learning of Natural Sciences: The Case of Tekirdağ Süleymanpaşa

This study aims to examine the effects of the mobile museum (MM) application on 10th-grade students’ knowledge of rocks, minerals, and fossils, their attitudes toward museum education, their preferences for experiential learning, and their career interests in the natural sciences. Designed as a portable educational tool consisting of rock, mineral, and fossil collections, the MM enabled students to interact directly and tangibly with natural science materials. The study was conducted with a total of 873 10th-grade students attending seven different high schools in the Süleymanpaşa district of Tekirdağ province. A single-group pre-test and post-test design, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. A 15-item 5-point Likert-type scale developed by the researchers was applied as the data collection tool. The scale consists of items designed to measure students’ knowledge of rocks, minerals, and fossils; their attitudes toward museum education and out-of-school learning; their preferences for experiential learning; and their career interests. The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test, Mann-Whitney U Test, and Kruskal-Wallis H Test were used to analyze the data. The results indicated statistically significant changes in 12 out of 15 items following the MM application (p