The efficiency of interactive computer-assisted biology teaching in grammar schools

Abstract

© 2017, FACTEACHEREDUCATION. All rights reserved. In pedagogical research the results of which are presented in this paper, the teaching topic was Fundamentals of molecular biology of the biology curriculum for the fourth year of grammar school of the natural sciences and mathematics department. The experiment was carried out during 13 lessons of interactive computer-assisted teaching in the experimental group and by traditional teaching in the control group. The survey was conducted on a sample of 142 students in two grammar schools in the Republic of Serbia. The aim of this study was to determine whether the application of computer-assisted interactive teaching has achieved better results in helping learners acquire complex content in biology and reach higher levels of quality and quantity of knowledge in comparison with traditional teaching. The analysis of the study results confirmed higher efficiency of interactive computerassisted biology teaching compared to the traditional approach to learning the same content. Differences which are statistically significant were found in student achievement between the experimental and control group in the final test and in the retest as a whole, and at individual levels of knowledge. They were: knowledge of the facts, understanding of concepts and analysis and reasoning. The research results recommend greater application of interactive computer-assisted biology teaching in grammar schools and in other high schools, especially when learning difficult educational content.