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- Title
A Comparison of an Inquiry Lab Teaching Method and Traditional Lab Teaching Method upon Scientific Attitudes of Biology Students.
- Authors
Khan, Muzaffar
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to compare inquiry lab teaching method with traditional lab teaching method upon scientific attitudes of biology students studying in 9[sup th] grade. For this purpose, students divided into two groups control and experimental group on the basis of their previous achievement test. Scientific attitude test was administered to students of both the groups. After the pre-test, experimental group was taught with inquiry lab teaching method while control group was taught with traditional lab method. After treatment, scientific attitude test was used again as a post-test. t-test was used for analysis of data. It was observed that the students taught through inquiry lab teaching method showed more performance in scientific attitude than the students of control group. Results showed that inquiry lab teaching method is more effective in developing scientific attitudes among the students of biology at secondary school level.
- Subjects
TEACHING research; EXPERIMENTAL methods in education; BIOLOGY students; ATTITUDE research; BIOLOGY education
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 6, p398
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article