Reform-Based Curriculum and Motivation in Geometry
Erdoğan Halat 1 * , Elizabeth Jakubowski 2, Nuh Aydin 3
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1 Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, TURKEY2 Florida State University, FL, USA3 Kenyon College, OH, USA* Corresponding Author

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare motivation of sixth-grade students engaged in instruction using reform-based curriculum with sixth-grade students engaged in instruction using a traditional curriculum. There were 273 sixth- grade mathematics students, 123 in the control group and 150 in the treatment group, involved in the study. This study took place in North Florida. The researchers used a questionnaire, the Course Interest Survey (CIS), administered to the students before and after a five-week of instruction. The paired-samples t-test, the independent-samples t-test, and ANCOVA with α = 0.05 were used to analyze the quantitative data. The study showed that there was a statistically significant difference in motivation between the groups favoring the treatment group. In other words, the reform-based curricula designed on the basis of van Hiele theory, compared to a traditional one, had more positive effects on students’ overall motivation in learning geometry at the sixth grade level.

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Article Type: Research Article

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2008, 285-292

https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/75351

Publication date: 22 Oct 2008

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