Developing a Teaching Program Based on Active Learning and its Effect on Developing the Practical Skills in Chemistry for First High School Students

Abstract

This study aimed at building a teaching program based on active learning and revealing its effect on building the practical handy skills for the chemistry course 1 among first high school students . 

A survey descriptive method was used to build a list of practical handy skills suitable for first high school students  studying chemistry 1 and building the teaching program based on active learning . A quasi- experimental design was employed with one experimental group receiving instruction using  the  active learning program while the control group used the traditional method.

A practical handy skills test and an observation card of practical handy skills prepared by the researcher were administered for both experimental and control groups as pretests and posttests.

The final sample study consisted of 60 students enrolling at Asyah Secondary School in Ain Bin Fuhaid. It was assigned for both experiment and control groups of 30 students each.

Results of the main study showed that it has reached the preparation of the standard list of practical handy skills suitable for students in the first grade of secondary in chemistry 1, which included (9) practical skills, under which 70 sub-practical skills.    A statistically significant difference was found at the level of ( 0.05 ≥ α) a with students of experimental group scoring significantly higher than the students of the control group on the posttests for both the test and the observation card. These findings suggested that the teaching program on active learning has had a positive effect on 1st high school students studying chemistry