scholarly journals The Effect of Retelling Technique to Students' EFL Learning in Narrating Past Events

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Besral Besral ◽  
Luli Sari Yustina ◽  
Laura Renalsi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Advance Technology ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Control ◽  
Efl Learning

Lack of students’ mastery of grammar and limited number of vocabulary have been identified assources of their low competence in EFL Learning to speak in West Sumatra Senior High Schools.Therefore, a constant effort to develop these two essential elements needs to be conducted especiallyin rural areas where advance technology of information is almost inaccessible. To deal with the issue,we have implemented Retelling technique to Grade X at Senior High School 1 Hiliran Gumanti. Agroup of science class (N=48) have been chosen to be the experimental and control groups. A typicaltreatment for the experimental class began with scaffolding the text. Discussion was focused onelements of text and in groups of four or five students, teacher encouraged the students to retellanother story. After 15 minutes discussions, each group was encouraged to retell the story startingfrom the first member (story-teller) and continued to the other members till the end of the story. Someextra pictures were accompanied the students to help them of the events. After several meetings, bothclasses were tested to retell another story. Post test scores of the groups were compared toinvestigate the difference. The finding showed that mean score of post test of experimental class was73.25, higher than control class (66.58). Meanwhile, standard deviation of experimental class washigher than control class (sd= 6.79>66.58). While t-calculated was 3.71 and t-table 1.678 witha=0.05 and degree of freedom 46 greater than t-table (3.71>1.678) meaning that students’ betterspeaking skills were mainly due to the application or effects of Retelling technique.

Learning by Writing in Introductory Psychology

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 563-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary P. Boyles ◽  
Paul W. Killian ◽  
Kathryn K. Rileigh
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Writing Across The Curriculum ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Final Examination ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

The writing-across-the-curriculum movement suggests that writing assignments can enable students to think more clearly about a discipline. Performance of three groups of beginning psychology students on class tests under two conditions was compared (1) after completing lecture-based writing assignments ( ns = 21 and 23) and (2) without writing assignments ( n = 25). Test performance improved for one experimental group on the objective portion and for the other experimental group on the essay portion of the tests; however, the experimental and control groups did not differ on the comprehensive multiple-choice final examination. The two experimental groups were taught by different instructors, which might account for the difference in test scores. Responses to the questionnaire indicated that students responded positively to the writing assignments. Faculty stated that the writing assignments provided them valuable information about students' learning.

scholarly journals The Effect of Teaching Supported by Interactive Whiteboard on Students’ Mathematical Achievements in Lower Secondary Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceren Tunaboylu ◽  
Ergül Demir
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Interactive Whiteboard ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of using the interactive whiteboard in mathematics teaching process on the 7th-grade students’ achievement. This study was conducted as experimental design. Experimental and control groups were composed of 58 7th-grade students from one school in the 2015-2016 educational year in Ankara. As a measurement tool, an achievement test developed by the researchers was used as the pre-test and post-test. An education program which included the activities with the interactive whiteboard was developed by researchers. And, this program was implemented to the experimental group 12 hours over 3 weeks. On the other hand, activities for the control group were limited to the blackboard usage. In the analysis of the data, “analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)” was used by defining the pre-test scores as “covariate” variable.According to the findings, it was observed that there was a significant difference between experimental and control groups pre-test average scores. When the difference of pre-test scores under control, it was observed the significant difference between the average post-test scores in favor of the experimental group. These findings show that using the interactive whiteboard in mathematics teaching process has positive effects on the students’ mathematical achievement. These results are supported by some other researchers’ findings.

scholarly journals The Effect of Psychodrama Integrated Psycho-Education Program on Resilience and Divorce Adjustment of Children of Divorced Families

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Uğur Gürgan
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Divorced Families ◽  
Divorce Adjustment ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Control

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of Psycho-drama Integrated Psycho-Education Program (PIPP) on divorce adaptation and resilience scores of children of divorced families. In this study, a 2x3 design with experimental and control groups and having pre-test, post-test and follow-up measurements was used. Nonparametric statistics were used in the analysis of the obtained data. Mann Whitney U test was adopted to determine the significance of the difference between the groups and Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test was utilized to find the significance of the difference between the measurements. The Child’s Divorce Adjustment Inventory, Child and Youth Resilience Measure and Personal Information Form were used as data collection tools. Based on the results, it was seen that the PIPP had a highly significant effect on the increase in adaptation and resilience scores of children of divorced families and this effect was long-lasting.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY USING VCD LEARNING TO THE KINDERGARTEN LEVEL IN SMART AND FUN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH COURSE SAMARINDA

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Ikhwanul Ahsan Faryabi MUJA
Keyword(s):  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
English Program ◽  
And Control

The researcher used VCD <em>Learning</em> to help kindergarten level students Smart and Fun Communicative English Program Samarinda on learning English vocabulary. The contents were relevant to the vocabulary for students in kindergarten level of Smart and Fun Samarinda.This study was aimed finding whether there was significance difference between experimental and control groups and whether there was significant difference between post experimental and control groups. It is a kind of experimental research. This study’s design was <em>two group-pretest-treatment-posttest design</em>. The population of this study was 60 students. The researcher took 40 students from two classes as the sample of this study. Then, took other 20 students as try out test respondents. The test was tried out to 20 respondents consisted of 30 items. After being analyzed, its reliability coefficient was 0.462. The experimental group’s mean score on the post-test was 80.17 while on control group was 70.67. After analyzing the two mean scores by using the program of SPSS 16.0, it was found that the difference significance value between the two mean scores t - computed 4.068 was higher than t - table 2.093 with the level of significant 5%. The computation showed that the two groups’ mean scores of significantly differed. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the Null Hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. It could be concluded that there was significant difference of English vocabulary achievement among students of kindergarten level of Smart and Fun by using VCD <em>Learning.</em>

scholarly journals Decision-making is the process of analyzing information about a problem situation and comparing it to a specific conclusion in order to solve a specific problematic (Yıkılmaz, 2001; Miller and Byrnes, 2001). Decision-making styles are a mechanism that is influenced by the internal and external conditions that determine the direction of the decisions of the individual, the content of the decision-making process, and the outcome of the decision-making process (Payne, Bettman and Johson, 1993; Bavol’ár and Orosová, 2015). ACT is a contemporary member of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy family. ACT (Acceptance and commitment therapy) has both similar and different directions with Behavioral Therapies and Cognitive Therapies (Herbet and Forman, 2011; Hayes, 2004). KKT responds to classical behavioral treatments using both existential and cognitive approaches in the analysis of behavior. KKT is a science wing that tries to solve human problems with a wider perspective aimed at solving problematic human behaviors (Plumb, Stewart, Dahl and Lundgren, 2009). It is seen that there is very little research about the new approach of ACT approach when the aiming country of our country is screened and it is thought that our country will contribute to the field of psychological counseling with the work done. In the scope of the research, experimental and control groups and preliminary test, post-test and follow-up measurements of 2x3 experimental design were used. The study's study group consists of a total of 24 (12 experimental and 12 control groups) university students studying in different departments and levels, continuing their education in the academic year of 2015-2016 in Ağrı province and İbrahim Chechen University in 2015-2016 academic year. The average age of participants in the experiment and control group is 20. There were 12 participants in the experimental group, 7 female and 5 male, and 12 participants, 7 female and 5 male in the control group. Personal Information Form and Decision Making Style Scale prepared by the researcher were used in the research. In order to decide on the tests to be used in the course of analyzing the data, the scores of the participant's Decision Styles Scale pre-test, which are placed primarily in the experimental and control groups, it was analyzed whether the basic expectations of parametric tests were answered. As a result of the analysis made, the scores, skewness and kurtosis coefficients obtained from the Decision Making Styles Scale were given to the experimental and control groups. It was determined that the distribution was normal in the result of Shapiro-Wilk test, in which the skewness and kurtosis coefficients of each sub-scale were ranked between -1 and +1. Participants in the experimental and control groups; homogeneity test results for decision-style pre-test measurements indicate that the data are homogeneous. According to the results of the Mauchly Globalness Test, it has been determined that working supports the hypothesis. It was determined that there was no significant difference between the pre-test scores obtained from dependent decision-making style of experiment and control groups, but the test group showed lower mean scores at the significant level within the scores of post-test and follow-up tests. Therefore, it can be said that the ACT-oriented psychoeducation program applied to the experimental group reduces the dependent decision-making style scores from the decision style sub-dimensions and the psychoeducation program has a lasting effect. It was determined that there was no significant difference between pre-test, post-test and follow-up scores obtained from the Spontaneous-Instant Decision Style of experiment and control groups. Thus, it can be said that this situation does not cause a significant difference in the Spontaneous-Decision-Making Style scores from the decision style sub-dimensions of the ACT-oriented psychoeducation program applied to the experimental group. The ACT -oriented psychoeducation program had a decline in the intuitive decision-making styles of the individuals, but this decrease did not create significant differences. Thus, it can be said that this situation does not make a meaningful difference in the intuitive decision style scores from the decision style sub-dimensions of the KKT oriented psychoeducation program applied to the experimental group. The pre-test scores obtained from the rational decision-making style of the experimental and control groups showed that there was a difference between the post-test and the follow-up scores, but this difference was not significant. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the test group had higher levels of rational decision style than the pre - test scores in the post test and follow - up scores, whereas the post test and follow - up test scores in the control group rational decision style showed a decrease compared to the pre - test scores. the pre - test scores. Decision-making Styles Scale Avoidant Decision Making As a result of the analysis of the mean scores of the subscale scores of pre-test, post-test and follow-up measures, the group effect was found to be insignificant. It was determined that the experimental and control groups differed significantly from the pre-test scores obtained from the avoidant decision-making style but did not show any significant change within the scores of the post-test and follow-up tests.

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
mustafa ercengiz ◽  
ali haydar şar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Decision Style ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Decision Making Styles ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

scholarly journals The Effects of the Course of Intelligence Games Towards Student's Attitudes

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ali Ozkaya
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Mathematics Attitudes ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Mathematics Attitude ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

Various games and activities of students can be used as an effective tool in the development of mental capacities, skills and intelligence games. Intelligence games are games that have all kinds of problems, including real problems. So it is a good tool to teach problem solving. The course of intelligence games will enable students to develop capacity for problem perception and assessment, to create different perspectives, to be able to make quick and correct decisions when they encounter problems, to develop a problem-solving and problem-solving habit, and to use reasoning and logic effectively. Therefore, it is appropriate to use a stepwise teaching approach to teaching mental games. In the middle school the course of intelligence games teaching program, learning areas are divided into 6 categories according to game categories: Reason Execution and Transaction Games, Verbal Games, Geometric - Mechanics Games, Strategy Games, Memory Games and Intelligence Questions [1]. The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of the course of intelligence games on the mathematics attitudes of Grade 5 students. Research was conducted in the 5th Grade of a private school in Antalya province. The experimental part of the research is comprised of the effects of the course of intelligence on students’ mathematics attitudes. This part of the research is conducted by the pretest-post-test control group design. Of two equal classes, one group is randomly assigned to be the experimental group and the other the control group; pre-test and post-test measurements were carried out in both groups. Experimental design with control group was used in the research. Mathematics attitude scale was used as pre-test and post-test in the research. In the analysis of the data, t test was used to compare the pretest and posttest scores. Between the pretest and the posttest, the lectures in the experimental group were carried out during the education period, including 2 hours per week. The lessons are supported each week by different activities of mental games. In the control group, teaching was done according to the current curriculum. To determine whether there is a meaningful difference between pre-test and post-test scores of experiment and control groups, analyzes were tried to determine the effect of mental games on math attitude. According to the results of the analysis, it was found that the students in the experimental and control groups had a significant difference between their pre-test scores and post-test scores within the mathematics attitude scale.

scholarly journals A Psychological Counseling Study on Fear of Failure and Academic Procrastination with a Spiritually Oriented Cognitive Behavioral Group

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-235
Author(s):  
Serra Dinç ◽  
Halil Ekşi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Fear Of Failure ◽  
Academic Procrastination ◽  
Psychological Counseling ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Behavioral Group ◽  
And Control

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of psychological counseling with an eight-session group study based on the spiritually oriented cognitive behavioral approach, which was developed to reduce high school students’ fear of failure and academic procrastination levels. The study uses an experimental design with a pretest-posttest control group. The sample group of the study consists of 20 female students (10 experimental and 10 controls) attending 11th grade at an Imam Hatip High School in the Üsküdar District of Istanbul during the 2018-2019 academic year. The experimental and control groups were applied the Error Making Anxiety Subscale of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale and the Academic Procrastination Scale as the pre-tests and post-tests. Spiritually oriented cognitive behavioral psychological counseling was conducted in 90-minute sessions for eight weeks. The non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test has been used to determine whether a difference exists between the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental and control groups. The non-parametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test has been used to test whether significant differences exist between the fear of failure and academic procrastination pre-test and post-test scores for both the control and experimental groups. As a result of the study, the psychological counseling with spiritually oriented cognitive behavioral group study was found to have an effect on fear of failure and academic procrastination. The results have been discussed last.

scholarly journals Effects of Yalom Group therapy on the Resilience and Meaning in Life of the Nurses in Covid-19 Centers

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-214
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Control

Background and Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effects of the Yalom group therapy on the resilience and meaning in life of the nurses fighting COVID-19. Materials and Methods: This quasi-intervention pre-test post-test research was conducted with a control group. Statistical population of this study included all the nurses of the hospitals of Hamedan who cared for the COVID-19 patients in 2020. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 32 nurses were randomly selected and divided equally into the intervention and control groups. The intervention group was treated by the Yalom group therapy for 10 sessions. Evaluation tools were the Connor-Davidson (2003) Resilience Questionnaire and The Meaning in Life Questionnaire of Steger et al. which were completed by both groups at pre-test and post-test stages. The data were analyzed using the multivariate analysis of covariance and univariate analysis of variance in SPSS software (version 24). Results: The significance level of the difference between the mean scores of "meaning in life" was less than 0.05 (P<0.05). Hence, the difference between the means was significant and it can be said that the Yalom group therapy affects the meaning in life. According to the eta-squared value, the extend of this impact was about 64%. Moreover, the difference between the mean of the resilience scores of the intervention and control group was 58.94 and the significance level of this value was less than 0.05 (F [1 and 27] =58.937, P=0.001). Therefore, the difference between the means of the resilience scores of the intervention and control groups was significant with 95% confidence. It can be said that the Yalom group therapy had a significant impact on the resilience of the nurses. Conclusion: The results can be used to maintain and care for the mental health of nurses during severe disease epidemics, such as the Coronavirus epidemic.

THE EFFECT OF APPLYING ANIMAL CARTOON PICTURES ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasanul Arifin Zul And Masitowarni Siregar
Keyword(s):  
T Test ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Control Group ◽  
First Year ◽  
Writing Achievement ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Written Test ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

This thesis is focused on the investigation of the effect of applying animal cartoon pictures on students’ achievement in writing narrative text. This study aims to find whether applying animal cartoon pictures significantly affect the students’ writing achievement or not. The data in this study were obtained by administering a written test. The population was the 2015/2016 first year (grade XI) of SMA Swasta Nusantara Lubuk Pakam and 66 students were taken as the sample by using random sampling. The sample was divided into two groups, experimental and control groups. The experimental group was taught by applying animal cartoon pictures while the control group without animal cartoon pictures (x = lecturing). The data were taken the scores from the pre-test and post-test to both experimental and control groups. These data were analyzed by using t-test. The result of computing the t-test obviously showed that t-observed is higher than t-table (5.21 >1,67) with the degree of freedom 64 (df =N-2) at the level significance 0,05 one tail test. It showed that the application of animal cartoon pictures significantly affected the students of SMA Swasta Nusantara Lubuk Pakam achievement in writing narrative text.

THE ROLE OF WHATSAPP IN TEACHING VOCABULARY TO THE STAFFS OF UMBUL PONGGOK KLATEN

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Lia Ardiana Safitri
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Vocabulary Test ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Control

This study was conducted with the aim of knowing the significant role of WhatsApp in teaching vocabulary, especially staff learning achievement which was limited to vocabulary achievement as measured by a vocabulary test at Umbul Ponggok Klaten. Participants in this study amounted to 30 people consisting of 15 men and 15 women. All participants will learn English as a foreign language using WhatsApp to learn new vocabulary items via their mobile, tablet or laptop. Participants' English level will be measured. Random sampling procedure was carried out. To carry out the research, a true experimental design was used. The participants were assigned to two experimental and control groups. The assessment instrument in this study used a pre-test and post-test. The results showed that the use of the WhatsApp application in teaching vocabulary to the Umbul Ponggok Klaten staff was able to improve the achievement of new English vocabulary mastery of the Umbul Ponggok Klaten staff which was getting better.

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