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

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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.