Impact of 5e learning cycle on sixth grade students' mathematics achievement on and attitudes toward mathematics

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Pulat, Selma

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of 5E learning cycle on sixth grade students’ mathematics achievement on and attitudes toward mathematics. The study was carried out in a public school in one of the towns of the Central Anatolia Region with 28 sixth-grade elementary school students. One group pretest-posttest design was used. Mathematics Achievement Test and Mathematics Attitude Scale were administered to collect the necessary data. The instruction will be applied by the researcher five hours per week in a 15-week. The data were analyzed by using one-way repeated measures analysis of variance and a paired-samples t-test. According to the results of the study it was found that there was a statistically significant change in mathematics achievement of sixth grade students who participated in the instruction based on 5E learning cycle over three time periods (pre-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up). There was only no statistically significant mean difference between post-intervention and follow-up mathematics achievement. Furthermore, there was a statistically significant decrease in mean scores of attitudes toward mathematics from prior intervention to after intervention.

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Education., Educational tests and measurements.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19103

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S. Pulat, “Impact of 5e learning cycle on sixth grade students’ mathematics achievement on and attitudes toward mathematics,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.