Effect of STAD technique on learning outcomes and attitude towards geography of high school students in relation to self efficacy

Abstract

Present study was undertaken to investigate the effect STAD technique on learning outcomes in geography and attitude towards geography in relation to self-efficacy among IX graders. The sample of the study was 200 (100 experimental + 100 control) students IX class from two Government Senior Secondary Schools of Jalandhar district of Punjab, India.The tool of learning outcomes in Geography developed by the investigator, Attitude towards Geography Scale (2017) by Mehraand Sharma, and Self-Efficacy by Mathur and Bhatnagar (2012) were used for data collection. The experiment was conducted for 30 working days. The statistical operations mean, median, standard deviation skewness and kurtosis was applied to check the nature of distribution of data. The t test and analysis of variance were applied to test the hypothesis. These calculations were made on the gain score (post test pre test) in learning outcomes in geography. Result of the study revealed that the group thought through STAD technique was significantly better than the group taught by the traditional method on both learning outcomes and attitude towards Geography. No interaction found between teaching strategies and self-efficacy on the learning outcomes in Geography and also on the attitude towards Geography. newline