Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.32633/eb.9.6
The influence of the interactive form of repetition on the success of learning Science in the 5th grade of elementary school
Ana Skuhala
orcid.org/0009-0001-6880-7607
; Elementary school Breznički Hum; III. Varaždin elementary school, Varaždin
Ines Radanović
orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-0536
; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The ways of repeating the teaching content are constantly changing, new methods are applied that often give better results at the end of the teaching. The goal of the research is to determine how repetition using interactive lessons in an online environment can affect the understanding and connection of the teaching contents of biology. The research was conducted in 2022, and is related to the teaching topics Food as a source of energy and Adaptations of living things to life in water, and Properties of water as a topic based on field research. The teaching topics were selected with two biological concepts - concept A (Energy effects of nutrition of living beings) and concept B (Adaptations of living beings as consequences of evolution) and with teaching using field research simulations. The sample consisted of six fifth-grade classes, which repeated the teaching contents in online form with the help of Moodle lessons of the BUBO platform (on the MoD, SRCE system). A classic repetition was applied to the control sample. All students in the study were taught with the help of the same teaching materials. Lessons for repetition are created on the basis of materials that were used for teaching and learning a particular topic. After the repetition, the students wrote the final knowledge test, which contained one question from each topic with three parts, each part of which tested one of the cognitive levels of knowledge (reproduction, understanding and application of knowledge, problem solving). The success of learning with interactive online repetition in the form of a Moodle lesson is shown on the basis of monitoring the achievement of outcomes during the solving of tasks within the lesson and on the basis of the results of solving the final written test. In order to collect information about the impressions of learning with the repetition lessons, a survey questionnaire with a three-point Likert scale was used, with which the students assessed the difficulty of the questions, the interestingness of the lesson, the quality of the instructions and the quality of the content. Students mostly estimate that learning with the help of lessons is practical, clear and simpler than classic repetition. The vast majority agree that this method of repetition is interesting and that it would be good to learn this way more often, while they state that it is easier to repeat when questions are asked that guide them in learning, because in this way they can more easily notice important content and links between content.
Keywords
Moodle lesson; 11-year-old students; online repetition; learning biology
Hrčak ID:
296756
URI
Publication date:
28.2.2023.
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