THE EFFECTS OF THE BRAIN BASED LEARNING APPROACH ON 5th GRADE STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND ACADEMIC SELF-ESTEEM İN SOCIAL STUDIES
Journal Title: Batı Anadolu Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi (BAED) - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 9
Abstract
The modern times require individuals who do not only accept and memorize the information served but also aware of the structure of respective learning; giving meanings to the data learned, acting in line with critical and creative thinking, and making use of the data learned in practice. One of the significant teaching approaches to train such skilled individuals is a brain based learning which is commonly accepted. The brain based learning is a wide-range approach that supported by the neurological research findings explaining how the learning happens in the brain. This study aims to explain the effects of the teaching activities prepared in accordance with the brain compatible learning approach on 5th grade students’ Social Sciences course towards their academic achievement, executive functions and academic self esteem. In this research, quantitative research methods were both used.An experimental and two control groups were composed in the research. "unsynchronized pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design with" quantitative research design was used. The participants of the research, were students from the middle socio-economic level of a public school in Buca district of Izmir province. The data collection tools of the study were: Coopersmith Academic Self Esteem Scale, originally designed by Coopersmith (1991) and oriented Turkish by Pişkin (1996), Which Social Studies Academic Achievement Test was developed by the researchers. According to the findings of the study, the experimental group had higher scores on academic achievement, and academic self-esteem than the control groups of the study and this difference continued in one month.
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Tuncay CANBULAT, Hadiye KÜÇÜKKARAGÖZ
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