Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.32633/eb.9.3

Efficacy of learning about gymnosperms by individual work using textual and audiovisual teaching tools

Tihana Miloloža orcid.org/0009-0000-7435-0095 ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Nikolina Sabo orcid.org/0000-0002-1334-9733 ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Zorana Katanić ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Tanja Žuna Pfeiffer ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Matej Šag orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-6018 ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Ljiljana Krstin ; Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

The modern approach to learning and teaching as well as the use of active learning methods put students at the center of the teaching process. The choice of teaching methods depends on the learning outcomes, but also on the student's ability to learn using certain methods. The aim of this research was to examine whether students achieve better learning results when learning individually using textual teaching aids or when they learn in the same form of work, but using audiovisual teaching aids (videos). The research was conducted among students enrolled in the 2nd year of the Undergraduate Study Program in Biology. The research consisted of 3 stages. In the first stage, the students wrote an initial assessment test and in the second stage they were randomly divided into two experimental groups to study the part of the topic of the Gymnosperm, one of which studied using text materials, and the other by watching a video. In the third stage, they wrote a final knowledge test to evaluate their success in learning. Both teaching aids resulted in an increased average number of achieved points, i.e. grades, and no statistically significant differences were found between the achieved results. The above indicates that both methods are equally effective in the adoption of teaching material and that it is necessary to implement more of them in higher education teaching.

Keywords

individual form of work; teaching aids; reading text; video; active learning

Hrčak ID:

296751

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/296751

Publication date:

28.2.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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