Open AccessThe Effect of Flipped Classroom on the Academic Achievement and Attitude of Higher Education Students
Author(s) -
Duygu Sağlam,
Ali Arslan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
world journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0754
pISSN - 1925-0746
DOI - 10.5430/wje.v8n4p170
Subject(s) - mathematics education , flipped classroom , grammar , academic achievement , psychology , test (biology) , quasi experiment , control (management) , foreign language , treatment and control groups , blended learning , flipped learning , educational technology , computer science , mathematics , sociology , paleontology , population , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , demography , artificial intelligence , biology
This study aims to search the effect of flipped classroom on students’ learning a new grammar structure and theirattitudes towards the English course. The study was carried out for 6 weeks with 56 students studying in fivedifferent preparatory classes at a black sea region university’s foreign languages school in the fall term of 2015-2016academic year. The design of the study was ‘non-equivalent control group design’ which is one ofquasi-experimental designs. Data were gathered with help of an achievement test and an attitude scale. Flippedclassroom model was applied in the experimental group while traditional instruction was applied in the control group.At the end of the study, it was concluded that flipped classroom had medium effect on students’ academicachievements and attitudes comparing to traditional instruction.