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RESEARCH PAPER
Improving Secondary School Students Physics Achievement Using Reciprocal Peer Tutoring: A Multi-level Quasi-Experimental Study
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Science and Mathematics Education, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Online publication date: 2020-01-16
Publication date: 2020-01-16
Corresponding author
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2020;16(4):em1832
KEYWORDS
didactical contractmultilevel quasi-experimentPedagogical Changephysics achievementreciprocal peer tutoring
TOPICS
K-12 EducationCooperative/Collaborative Learning and EnvironmentsDidactic/Pedagogical IssuesInstructional DesignScience Education
ABSTRACT
Background:
The purpose of this study was to test the best mix of reciprocal peer tutoring with direct teaching methods to improve students’ achievement in secondary school physics teaching in content-focused and high-stake examination-oriented curriculum.
Material and methods:
Data was gathered from three equivalent grade-9 sections selected based on physics achievement pre-test and assigned to three different intervention groups in pre-test post-test multi-level quasi-experimental design. The three groups used reciprocal peer tutoring once a week (N=46), twice a week (N=46) and three lessons a week (N=51) for 9 weeks and during the teaching of two physics units.
Results:
Results were that reciprocal peer tutoring helped in improving physics achievement of secondary school students (R2 =0.316) in favor of low achieving (P=0.001) and female (P=0.038) students when it is used as a unilateral pedagogy.
Conclusions:
The conclusion is that reciprocal peer tutoring used as a unitary classroom pedagogy helped all students and differentially less able and female secondary school students to enhance their physics achievement to some extent without negatively impacting their learning. Further replication research with a comparison group was recommended to find a conclusive evidence if the observed frailer of mixing pedagogy persists.
The purpose of this study was to test the best mix of reciprocal peer tutoring with direct teaching methods to improve students’ achievement in secondary school physics teaching in content-focused and high-stake examination-oriented curriculum.
Material and methods:
Data was gathered from three equivalent grade-9 sections selected based on physics achievement pre-test and assigned to three different intervention groups in pre-test post-test multi-level quasi-experimental design. The three groups used reciprocal peer tutoring once a week (N=46), twice a week (N=46) and three lessons a week (N=51) for 9 weeks and during the teaching of two physics units.
Results:
Results were that reciprocal peer tutoring helped in improving physics achievement of secondary school students (R2 =0.316) in favor of low achieving (P=0.001) and female (P=0.038) students when it is used as a unilateral pedagogy.
Conclusions:
The conclusion is that reciprocal peer tutoring used as a unitary classroom pedagogy helped all students and differentially less able and female secondary school students to enhance their physics achievement to some extent without negatively impacting their learning. Further replication research with a comparison group was recommended to find a conclusive evidence if the observed frailer of mixing pedagogy persists.
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