THE IMPACT OF THE USE OF TEAMS-GAME-TOURNAMENT IN TEACHING BIOLOGY ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT
Abstract
- This research has a purpose to study the impact of the use of Teams-Game-Tournament (TGT) in teaching biology on students’ achievement. The two Basic Education High School: BEHS (1) Pyawbwe and BEHS (2) Pannsone were selected by using simple random sampling method. The subject of this research was (128) students from BEHS (1) Pyawbwe and (127) students from BEHS (2) Pannsone. Learning materials were selected Chapter 5, Variety of Living Organisms: A Tapeworm and A Bacterial cell from Grade Ten Biology Textbook. In this research, one of the Mixed-Method designs: the explanatory sequential design was used. The students in the experimental groups were taught by TGT and the students in the control groups were taught by conventional style. Quantitative method was used to compares students’ achievement and to find out their attitudes towards team learning. Qualitative method was used to help explanation on quantitative results. The instruments were pretest-posttest questionnaires, attitudes questionnaires and interview. For quantitative study, the obtained data were analyzed by using independent samples t-test. For qualitative study, interviews were used as semi-structured type and students’ responses were recorded by audio-tape and they were transcribed. The result of this research showed that the students who had exposed to TGT were better achievement than the students who had exposed to conventional style and the students had positive attitudes towards team leaning. It was pointed that TGT was more effective than conventional style in promoting students’ achievement and students preferred team learning in learning their lesson.
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Year
- 2021
Author
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Chan Myae Aung
Subject
- Educational Methodology
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)