Universal Journal of Educational Research Vol. 10(9), pp. 523 - 540
DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2022.100902
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Area Measurement of Flat Rectangular Surfaces by Students 10-11 Years Old: Traditional vs Inquiry-Based Teaching Intervention

Georgia Vaitsidi , Chrysanthi Skoumpourdi ^*
Department of Pre-school Education and Educational Design, University of the Aegean, 85132, Rhodes, Greece

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this work is to determine the requirements during the design and implementation of inquiry-based teaching interventions (structured and guided inquiry-based teaching), as well as to record their effect on the perception of the area and its measurement by children aged 10-11 in relation with traditional didactic intervention. Initially, the students of three classes completed pre-test with tasks that aimed to detect their knowledge of the concept of area and its measurement. Then three different didactic interventions were applied (traditional, structured and guided inquiry-based), one in each class. Finally, after the completion of the interventions, the students completed a post-test similar to the pre-test in order to compare their answers and to record the results of each teaching intervention. The type of activities and the degree of guidance by the teacher during the interventions were the main criteria for differentiating the design and implementation of the inquiry-based teaching interventions from the traditional one. The results showed that the students of the traditional teaching intervention (TI) had a better general response, both in pre-test and in the post-test, than the other two groups of students. However, a greater improvement in the students' response to the post-test, compared to the pre-test, was recorded in the guided inquiry-based intervention (GIBI), with the structured inquiry-based intervention (SIBI) and the TI following. There was also a greater improvement in the response of low-achieving students, regardless of the teaching method, with students of the GIBI and the TI mid-achieving following. Regarding high-achieving students, greater improvement was observed in students in the SIBI with those in the GIBI following.

KEYWORDS
Area, Measurement, Rectangular, Surface, Primary Students, Teaching Intervention, Inquiry-Based, Traditional

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Georgia Vaitsidi , Chrysanthi Skoumpourdi , "Area Measurement of Flat Rectangular Surfaces by Students 10-11 Years Old: Traditional vs Inquiry-Based Teaching Intervention," Universal Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 10, No. 9, pp. 523 - 540, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2022.100902.

(b). APA Format:
Georgia Vaitsidi , Chrysanthi Skoumpourdi (2022). Area Measurement of Flat Rectangular Surfaces by Students 10-11 Years Old: Traditional vs Inquiry-Based Teaching Intervention. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 10(9), 523 - 540. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2022.100902.