The Effect of Teaching Physics by Technology –Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) Method onAcademic Achievement of High School Students

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Mohammad  Ahmadi Dehghotbadini ¹ ()
Farhad  Nazarifar ² ()
Faramarz  Malekian ³ ()
Ahmad Reza  Akbari Amro Abadi. ⁴ ()
Fatemeh  Zamanifard ⁵ ()
Behzad  Shahbazi ⁶ ()
Firouzeh  Sepehrian ⁷ ()
Fatemeh  Nosrat ⁸ ()
Mahdi  Abolghasemi NajafAbadi ⁹ ()
Maryam  Narimani ¹⁰ ()
Saeed  Rajaeepoor ¹¹ ()
Narges  Keshtiaray ¹² ()
Mozafaredin  Vaezi ¹³ ()
Zamaneh  Rezaei ¹⁴ ()
Ali Reza  Yoosefi ¹⁵ ()
Hadi  Kamali ¹⁶ ()
Saghar  SahebJamei ¹⁷ ()
Sayed Ebrahim  Mirshah Jafari ¹⁸ ()
Mohsen  Malekian ¹⁹ ()
Mohammad Javad  Leyaghatdar ²⁰ ()
Toraj  Hosseini Hafshajani ²¹ ()

Received: 2011-05-18 Accepted : 2013-04-27 Published : 2010-03-21

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Abstract This research aimed at investigating the effect of teaching by the Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) method on the academic achievement of high school students in physics by a quasi-experimental method. The research Population were the first grade female students of Falavarjan high schools. The study was conducted by using two groups randomly-selected of high school students (each group with 28 students). The experiment group was taught by the TEAL method and the control group was taught by the traditional method. The academic achievement of the subjects were assessed by the teacher-made pre-test and post-test. The validity was confirmed by the experts and its reliability was established by cronbach's Alpha (α=0.86) coefficient (86%). The data was analyzed through inferential statistics (ANCOVA). The results showed that the academic achievement by the TEAL method have been higher than those using the traditional method of learning at the probability level of 0/001.