The influence of flipped learning on attitudes of students towards technology in 8th grade math lesson
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The basic aim of this study is to determine the influence of Flipped learning on attitudes of students towards technology in the 8th grade math lesson. The workgroup of this study is consisted of the 8th grade students of Mithatpasa Secondary School that is in the centre of Giresun. Two of the 5 eighth grade classes were included in the study. One of the classes that has 32 students is determined as the experimental group and the other class that has 30 students is determined as the control group. In the study, in the forming of the both experimental and control groups, ‘random sampling method’ that is one of the probability based sampling methods was used. The findings were collected by using both qualitative and quantitative data collection tools. Before-after application in the quantitative size, to determine the attitudes of students towards technology ‘The Turkey version of students’ attitudes scale towards technology (PATT-TR)’ that has 24 items and that was developed by Yurdagul and Askar was applied to the experimental and control groups. During the application, videos that are appropriate for the lesson content were prepared for the experimental group which was determined as flipped classroom and these videos were uploaded to ‘Education information Network’ by the teacher. Afterwards, the students were divided into groups of 5-6 according to the subjects the teacher taught in the class. In the groups, the students solved tests individually or in groups, they asked questions and they formed discussion groups. In the control group, the teacher taught the lesson in line with the current programme, completed the learning process with homework and tests. Finally, at the end of the qualitative practice, qualitative data were collected by using semi-structured interview form and using document analysis developed by Koç (2016). In the analysis, t-test, content and descriptive analyzing methods were used. In line with the data that were obtained from the analysis, recommendations were presented.
Keywords: Learning, flipped classroom, flipped learning, technology.
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