Experimental Study Plan: Effectiveness of Activity based Teaching in the Subject of General Science at Elementary Level
Abstract
A kind of learning where students learn the concepts and lessons by doing activities and following the rule of learning by actively involved in learning process. Specifically, the study seeks to determine the extent to which activity-oriented instructional approaches influence students’ academic achievement. The study were to investigate the effect of activity-based teaching on students’ academic achievement, to find out the effect of activity-based teaching on students’ engagement in the subject of general science, and to determine the effect of activity-based teaching on students’ interest in the subject of general science. The design of the study was pre-test and post-test experimental. All students studying in 7th class and subject of general science were population of the study. Random sampling technique was applied for assigning the students to the control group, and experimental group. Treatment was given for a period of 8 weeks. The experimental group was taught through an activity-based teaching method. The control group was taught through by traditional method. A lesson plan was prepared to develop an achievement test, comprising the content of the science subject used for teaching. The achievement test was administered as a post-test to measure the difference in students’ scores after treatment. An independent sample t-test was used to compare groups. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the performance of the experimental group contrary to comparison group with reference to knowledge and understanding. Furthermore, it was found that the activity-based teaching method had a positive effect on students’ engagement and interest in the subject of general science. It was concluded that there was a significant difference in the attitude and motivation of students towards general science in the experimental and comparison groups in favor of the experimental group.
