- Title
- The effects of case study teaching on learners’ critical thinking and language literacy skills in Physical Sciences classrooms
- Creator
- Mogofe, Romulus Asaph
- Subject
- Physics--Study and teaching -(Secondary)
- Subject
- Critical thinking--Study and teaching --South africa
- Date Issued
- 2021-04
- Date
- 2021-04
- Type
- Doctoral theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/54669
- Identifier
- vital:47213
- Description
- This study investigated the effects of case study teaching on learners’ critical thinking and language literacy skills in Physical Sciences classrooms at secondary school level and whether it could be integrated into the secondary school Physical Sciences lessons without hampering the teaching program. This study is a step in the right direction as it pragmatically attempts to find a constructivism-driven pedagogical strategy that would optimise the attainment of the learning goals of Physical Sciences learners in their various academic settings. To accomplish the research aim, a mixed methods design, in which a non-equivalent (pre-test and post-tests) control-group quasi-experimental design was adopted for quantitative data collection and analysis, and an exploratory case study was adopted for qualitative data collection and analysis. The intervention in the experimental group was case study teaching, whereas in the control group it was the traditional lecture method of teaching science. The topic from the syllabus on which case study teaching was tested was Electricity and Magnetism. The population of the study was all Grade 10 learners studying Physical Sciences in the secondary schools of Sekhukhune East District. The sample consisted of 122 learners from four schools (70 learners from two rural (29 for experimental group and 41 for control group) and 52 from two urban schools (30 experimental group and 22 control group)). Two schools were treated as the experimental groups and the other two as control groups. A multistep sampling process was implemented in selecting the participating schools. Quantitative data was collected using a reading comprehension test, Critical Thinking in Electricity and Magnetism (CTEM) test and a summary writing task that was marked using a Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric (HCTSR) that was developed by Facione and Facione (1994) and analysed through both descriptive (means) and inferential (two-tailed t-test, Mann Whitney U test and effect size) statistics computed through PSPP statistical pack. Qualitative data was collected through classroom observation (participant observer) in which field notes were kept and face-to-face interviews were conducted, tape recorded and transcribed for analysis. Qualitative data was analysed thematically.
- Description
- Thesis (PHD) -- Faculty of Education, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- Format
- 1 online resource (346 pages)
- Publisher
- university
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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