The Effect of Teaching in Project-Cooperative Method on Academic Achievement of Senior Girl Students in Foolad Shahr High Schools, in Terms of Statistics and Modeling

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

ندا یزدیان‌پور ¹ , علیرضا یوسفی ² , فریبا حقانی ³

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2009-06-22

Keywords: Academic Achievement, project and cooperative method, active teaching method,

Abstract :

The present research aims at investigating the effect of teaching through a project and cooperative method on the academic achievement of students in statistics and modeling. In this research a quasi-experimental method was used. The research community was the junior girl students of Foolad Shahr high schools. (161 students). The sample population was 51 students, 24 of them were the exper mental group and 27 control group.In the experimental group an active teaching method was adopted which was a combination of project and cooperative methods. The control group was taught in the traditional approach. The academic achievements of students were assessed by teacher-made pre-test and post- test. The validity was confirmed by the experts and its reliability was checked by Choronbakh's alpha coefficient (0/945). The results were analyzed in two descriptive statistics sections which include graphs, mean and standard deviation as well as inferential statistics including a t-test for investigating the equality of the groups, the Levin’s test for investigating the equality of scores variance and analyzing covariance for testing the hypothesis. At a 5% error level it was concluded that there was a significant statistical difference between the achievements of control and experimental group. It means that students who were taught in a project-based and cooperative approach showed a better academic achievement compared with the traditional method learners.