LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 21:11 November 2021
ISSN 1930-2940

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Impact of Activity-Oriented Teaching on Students’
Academic Performance in Physics at College Level -
Additional Follow-up Study

Majid Khan, PhD Scholar and Kiramat Shah, PhD Scholar

Abstract

The purpose of this research article was to investigate the impact of activity- oriented teaching on the students’ performance in Physics at college level. An earlier study by Majid Khan, et. 2020, ten chapters from high school physics textbook were used. A sample of 60 students participated in that study. In the present study twenty (20) lessons were selected from 11th class Physics for the present study. All the science students at colleges of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, studying Physics at the 11th grade, constituted the population. A sample of 80 students was randomly selected from Govt. College Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat and Malakand. Pre-test- Post-test Control Group Design" of experimental research was selected for this research study. Three MCQs type achievement tests were used as research tools for the data collection. Experimental group was taught with the help of activities whereas the control group was taught the same lessons through traditional method of teaching for the period of six (4) weeks. T-test was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the activity- based teaching is more effective for the development of higher order skills in the students.

Keywords: Colleges of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, study of physics, Activity based learning, Academic performance, cognitive skill.

Introduction

Activity-based learning (ABL) as defined by Prince (2004) is a learning method in which students are engaged in the learning processes. In Activity-based learning (ABL) teaching method, in the words of Hartfield, Davies, Hede, Panko Kenley (2007) “students actively participate in the learning experience rather than sit as passive listeners”. Learning activities if based on “real life experience” help learners to transform knowledge or information into their personal knowledge which they can apply in different situations (Edward, 2001). Harfield, Davies, Hede, Panko and Kenley (2007) by quoting Prince (2004) say that active learning method is different from traditional method of teaching on two points. First, active role of students and second, collaboration among students. Suydam, Marilyn and Higgins (1977) define activity –based learning as the learning process in which “student is actively involved in doing or in seeing something done.” According to them Activity –Based teaching (ABT) method “frequently involves the use of manipulative materials”. Meaningful learning, according as Churchill (2003) quotes Jonassen and Churchill (2003) engages activity. According to Churchill (2003), ABL helps learners to “construct mental models that allow for ‘higher-order’ performance such as applied problem solving and transfer of information and skills”.

Science education actually describes and explains the ability of students to identify scientific issues, explains scientific phenomenon using scientific evidence and observation, deduces, analyses, solves and makes decisions about all the life situations involving science and technology, “such that an individual in order to participate fully in today’s global economy, needs to be able to solve scientific ideas, scientific experiment, clearly and persuasively” (Shah. K. 2015).

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Majid Khan, PhD Scholar
School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou
Jiangsu, 215006 China
mk6218701@gmail.com

Kiramat Shah, PhD Scholar
School of Education, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Kiramatshah2u@gmail.com
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