THE EFFECT OF MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTION BASED ON FLOW THEORY PRINCIPLES ENHANCED WITH REALISTIC MATHEMATICS EDUCATION ON STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT, RETENTION, MOTIVATION AND FLOW STATE

Download

10443117.pdf

Date

2022-2

Author

Ay, Yasin

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

570
views

640
downloads

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of mathematics instruction designed based on Flow Theory and RME on students’ achievement, retention, flow state and motivation. The study was conducted in 2017-2018 spring semester for 11 weeks at a state school in İzmir. In this study, quasi-experimental research design was used. After the groups were determined to be equivalent in the pretests, they were randomly assigned as experimental and control. The experimental group consisted of 37 students, while the control group consisted of 36 students. Additionally, qualitative data were collected to support the quantitative data. The data were collected through Mathematics Test, Flow State Scale, Mathematics Motivation Scale, observations, students’ diaries and interviews. The quantitative data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, t-tests, mixed ANOVA; determining alpha-level as .05. The qualitative data were analyzed through thematic analysis. The results indicated a significant difference between the mathematics retention scores of experimental and control groups, in favor of experimental group. There is also significant difference between posttest flow subdimension scores of experimental and control groups, in favor of experimental group. Additionally, significant difference was found between pretest and posttest flow subdimension, and between pretest and posttest boredom subdimension of experimental group, in favor of posttests. The results indicated that the mathematics motivation scores taken from posttest compared to pretest by the experimental group were significantly higher than the scores of the control group. The opinions of experimental group students about the instruction were investigated and results were discussed with relevant literature.

Subject Keywords

Flow Theory, Realistic Mathematics Education, Achievement and Retention, Flow State in Mathematics, Mathematics Motivation

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/95461

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

The Effects of Using Dynamic Geometry on Eighth Grade Students' Achievement and Attitude towards Triangles Samur Turk, Halime; Akyüz, Didem (2016-07-01) This study investigates the effects of dynamic geometry based computer instruction on eighth grade students' achievement in geometry and their attitudes toward geometry and technology compared to traditional instruction. Central to the study was a controlled experiment, which contained experimental and control groups both instructed by the same teacher. 36 eight grade students from a middle school located in a rural area in Turkey participated in this experiment. None of the students had past experience in ...
The effect of instruction with concrete materials on fourth grade students’ geometry achievement Sarı, Sibel; Bulut, Safure; Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education (2010) The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of concrete materials on fourth grade students’ geometry achievement. The secondary purpose was to investigate their opinions and feelings about instruction with concrete materials. The study was carried out in a private school in Ankara with 32 fourth grade elementary school students. One group pretest-posttest design was used. Geometry Achievement Test was administered to collect the necessary data. The instruction with concrete materi...
Effects of student and school related factors on the mathematics achievement in Turkey at eight grade level Altun, Ayşegül; Berberoğlu, Halil Giray; Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education (2007) The purpose of the study is to investigate how well the mathematics achievement is explained by the students and school related factors. Also, to what extent students and school related factors components are accounted for students’ mathematics achievement in answering reasoning level questions and basic mathematical knowledge questions will be investigated. This study will basically combine students’ questionnaires items with their mathematics achievement scores obtained from mathematics achievement tests ...
The effects of a mathematics teaching methods course on pre-service elementary mathematics teachers’ content knowledge for teaching mathematics Seviş, Şerife; Koç, Yusuf; Department of Elementary Science and Mathematics Education (2008) The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a mathematics teaching methods course on pre-service elementary mathematics teachers’ content knowledge for teaching mathematics (CKTM). In order to accomplish this purpose, pre-service mathematics teachers’ understanding of basic concepts and procedures in school mathematics, use of mathematical definitions, presentation of mathematical content to students, identification of common errors, misconceptions and solution strategies and evaluation of unusua...
The effects of computer-assisted instruction on the achievement, attitudes and retention of fourth grade mathematics students in North Cyprus Pilli, Olga; Aksu, Meral (2013-03-01) The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the educational software Frizbi Mathematics 4 on 4th grade student's mathematics achievement, retention, attitudes toward mathematics and attitude toward computer assisted learning. Two groups (experimental and control) of students from the state primary school in Gazimagusa, North Cyprus were used in this study. The control group was taught using a lecture-based traditional instruction and experimental group was taught using educational software, name...

Citation Formats

Y. Ay, “THE EFFECT OF MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTION BASED ON FLOW THEORY PRINCIPLES ENHANCED WITH REALISTIC MATHEMATICS EDUCATION ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT, RETENTION, MOTIVATION AND FLOW STATE,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.