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Name: Billy Steelman___________________________ Woodrow WilsonSummer 2012

Article Review

Title of Article: Physics Teaching ethods: Scientific !n"uiry #s Traditional $ecture

%ournal: !nternational %ournal of &umanities and Social Science

#olume: 1 !ssue: 1' Pages: 2(')2*( +ate: +ecem,er 2011 Author-s.: Ashi" &ussain/ uhammad A eem/ A ra Sha oor

A,stract:

This research study com ared scientific in"uiry method and traditional lecture method ofteaching3 Scientific in"uiry was di4ided in the three le4els ) guided scientific in"uiry/unguided scientific in"uiry and com,ination or mi5ed -guided 6 unguided. scientificin"uiry3 The ma7or o,7ecti4e of this study was 8to study the effect of three le4els ofscientific in"uiry method and traditional method of teaching hysics on students9

erformance and their roficiency to a ly the hysics nowledge in real life situations3

The retest and ost)test control grou e5 erimental design is used in this researchstudy3 Three e5 erimental grou s were taught ,y scientific in"uiry3 ne of thee5 erimental grou s was taught ,y guided scientific in"uiry; Second grou was taught,y unguided scientific in"uiry and third was taught ,y com,ination scientific in"uiry andfourth grou was taught ,y traditional method3 ?o ied directly from the research article3@

=esearch uestion-s. or Pur ose of Study:

Se4en null hy otheses were resented to e4aluate the im act of in"uiry 4ersus lectureteaching methods3 The ur ose of the study was to e4aluate the im act on student

erformance of in"uiry ,ased teaching 4ersus lecture style3

Su,7ects Partici ants:

The su,7ects in this study were 120 male hysics students ,etween the ages of 1C)1* atthe ?ha %humra +istrict Daisala,ad school3 These students were grou ed into Ee"ui4alent grou s using their intelligence tests and social)economic status3

Brief +escri tion of =esearch ethodology

The four grou s were each gi4en a hysics re)test to assessment grou initialroficiency3 The four grou s were gi4en the same hysics content ,ut differed in the

teaching methodology3 Dour different teaching methods were utili ed and consisted oflecture/ guided scientific in"uiry/ unguided scientific in"uiry/ and com,ination scientificin"uiry3

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The lecture teaching method is the traditional method of teaching that is teachercentered and is instructional ,ased3