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The Effects of Activity Based Learning on Sixth Grade Students’ Achievement and Attitudes towards Mathematics Activities

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Çelik, Halil Coşkun
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of activity based learning on sixth grade students’ mathematics achievement in comparison to traditional learning, and determine their attitudes towards activities. Experimental research design with pretest-posttest control group was applied in the study. The participants, which included 78 sixth grade students, were previously divided into two groups by random assignment. One group received traditional learning and the other group received activity based learning. The study was carried out for four weeks on the mathematics subject of “integers”. For collecting data the mathematics success test and the Likert type attitudes towards mathematics activities scale were used as pretest and posttest. As a result, the academic achievement for both groups were positive increased. On the other hand, while the attitudes towards activities of students’ in the experiment group decreased significantly, they increased in the control group.
Starting Page	1963
Ending Page	1977
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.29333/ejmste/85807
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.ejmste.com/pdf-85807-19897?filename=The+Effects+of+Activity.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste%2F85807
Volume Number	14
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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