Effectiveness of conceptual map, cooperative learning and traditional teaching methods on the incentive to progress and academic achievement in biology course

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

jamal ashoori ¹ , Mohammad Bagher kajbaf ² , gholamreza manshaee ³ , hoshang talebi ⁴

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2 - 2دانشیار روانشناسی، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
3 - 3استادیار روانشناسی، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
4 - 4دانشیار آمار کاربردی، گروه روانشناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2014-06-22

Keywords: Cooperative learning, Academic Achievement, motivation achievement, Conceptual map, Traditional,

Abstract :

TheThe aim of this research was to investigate about the effect of conceptual map, cooperative learning and traditional methods on the achievement of motivation and academic achievement in biology course. The statistical population included all of the male students in experimental field of Varamin suburbs. In a queasy-experimental study, 60 students were selected by multi-step cluster sampling method and randomly assigned into three groups. The experimental groups separately had 15 sessions of education by conceptual map and cooperative learning methods and the control group was educated by traditional method. All of the groups completed the Hermans’s achievement motivation questionnaire (1970) and the teacher-made test as the pre-test and post-test. The data was analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The findings showed that conceptual map method unlike traditional method led to increase achievement of motivation and academic achievement. Also, cooperative learning method unlike traditional method led to increase academic achievement, but between them in achieving motivation, there were no significant differences. In addition, conceptual map method comparing with cooperative learning method led to increase academic achievement, but there were no significant differences between them in achieving motivation (p < 0.05). Therefore, conceptual map method was more effective than cooperative learning and traditional methods.