Comparison of the effectiveness of teaching through PowerPoint versus presenting a lecture on the understanding of the content of the experimental science course of sixth grade students in Babol city

Mirarab Razi, Reza; Bararian, Sepideh; Azadnia, Fatemeh

Comparison of the effectiveness of teaching through PowerPoint versus presenting a lecture on the understanding of the content of the experimental science course of sixth grade students in Babol city

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Academic staff member, Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mazandaran University.

² Department of Educational Sciences, Curriculum Planning, Mazandaran,,Babolsar University

³ Department of Eductional Sciences, Curriculum Planning, Mazandaran ,Babolsar University

Abstract

The present research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of teaching through PowerPoint versus giving a lecture on students' understanding of the content of the experimental science course. This research was conducted as a quasi-experimental research with a pre-test-post-test design. The statistical population of the present study included all the students of Babol city in the academic year of 1402-1401. In this research, due to the fact that a quasi-experimental design was used, the effort was to select 30 students from the student population as a sample and randomly divide them into two equal groups: experimental (15) and control (15). people), was replaced. The tool for collecting information was Toll's content comprehension questionnaire (2022). In the present study, covariance analysis was used to compare the effectiveness of teaching through PowerPoint versus giving a lecture on students' understanding of the content. The results of the research showed that the average understanding of the content in a group of students who were trained by the PowerPoint method is different from the group that was trained by the lecture method, and their content understanding score is higher. That is, teaching using the PowerPoint method has a significant effect on students' understanding of the content and increases their understanding of the content.

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