Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.32633/eb.9.2

Peer teaching as support for the use of concept maps in independent online learning

Tea Gutić orcid.org/0009-0004-4329-2629 ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Filip Stević ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Irena Labak ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

With the goal of cognitively active involvement of students in the teaching process, students who are at the beginning of higher education were provided with peer support in acquiring subject-specific knowledge using a concept map. The research was conducted in the academic years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 with a total of fifty students of the Undergraduate University Study of Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Osijek. During the first phase of the research, students (future teachers of Nature, Biology, and Chemistry) who were in the role of those who teach designed and conducted a lesson in which different student activities alternated. At the same time supported the observation and separation of key concepts and connections between them, which is necessary for reaching knowledge at higher cognitive levels. Next, they programmed the same lesson and adapted it to online learning. In the second phase of the research, an initial written test of knowledge was conducted. Afterwards, the students were directed to independent online learning, which was followed by a final written test. By comparing the initial and final written tests, the effectiveness of peer support during independent online learning was determined. The results show that the students achieved a better score in the questions of all tested cognitive levels in the final written test of knowledge compared to the initial one.

Keywords

secondary school teacher; programmed teaching, students, effective learning, elementary school teachers

Hrčak ID:

296750

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/296750

Publication date:

28.2.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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