The effectiveness of hand-on investigation on students' conceptual understanding and curiosity towards science
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of hands-on investigation on students' conceptual understanding and curiosity towards science. There were 70 samples of Primary Year 5 students selected from two schools located in Tenom, Sabah. Samples were divided into two groups, w...
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| フォーマット: | 学位論文 |
| 言語: | 英語 英語 |
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2014
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| オンライン･アクセス: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37538/1/24%20PAGES.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37538/2/FULLTEXT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37538/ |
| Abstract | Abstract here |
| 要約: | The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of hands-on investigation on students' conceptual understanding and curiosity towards science. There were 70 samples of Primary Year 5 students selected from two schools located in Tenom, Sabah. Samples were divided into two groups, which 35 of them included in the treatment group that underwent hands-on investigation and the other 35 samples in the control group. The instruments used in this study were the pre- and post- test to examine the effects of hands-on investigation on students' conceptual understanding; and the preand post- questionnaire to examine the effects of hands-on investigation on students' curiosity towards science. Data collected was analysed in both way: descriptively and inferentially. The findings indicated that hands-on investigation had showed no significance difference in the post-test between treatment group and control group; nevertheless, researcher found that treatment group students had better improvement than those who are not. Besides that, findings also proved that hands-on investigation had positive effect on students' curiosity towards science. |
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