Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 13, Issue 2, Article1 (Dec., 2012) Bülent BASARAN and Selahattin GÖNEN Investigation of the effects of scorm adapted whiteboard movie techniques on students’ success in physics classes Previous Contents Next

Participants

This study was conducted with 139 10th grade students (3 experimental and 3 control groups) who were enrolled at Cumhuriyet Science High School (CFL), Diyarbakır Anatolian High School (DAL) and Dicle College (DK).In our study, the basic reason for choosing three different schools was to test the effectiveness of the teaching method we applied. The knowledge levels of students attending regular public high schools in Turkey are lower than those attending Science High Schools and Anatolian High Schools, which admit students according to the results of a placement exam. The present study tried to find answers to the question of whether the teaching method selected had similar effects on student groups with different knowledge levels. All these three high schools are located in Diyarbakır urban area. The number of the students in the experimental and control groups in each school are given in Table 1 below.

Table 1. Distribution of the student groups according to their schools

Groups					n
CFL-Experimental CFL-Control DAL- Experimental DAL- Control DK- Experimental DK-Control					24 24 30 26 22 13
Total Control Total Experimental					63 76