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Research Study – Published: January 19, 2015
Effectiveness of Teaching Economics through Concept Attainment Model over Traditional Method of Teaching to
Higher Secondary School Students.
Usha, K., & Malathi, S.
ABSTRACT
The main objective of the study was to find out if there is any effect of Concept Attainment Model on
Economics
teaching. The experimental method was adopted for the present study. A sample of 100 students from Chinmaya
Vidyalaya
Higher Secondary School, Virngambakkam, Chennai-92 was selected on the basis of purpose sampling method. The
investigator administered entry behavior test to the sample for the selection of experimental and control
group.
The investigator conducted pre-test and post-test for experimental and control group. Mean, S.D and t' test
was used
for analyzing the data. The major finding was that there is significant effect of Concept Attainment Model
on Economics
teaching.
Keywords: Concept Attainment Model, Economics Teaching, Traditional Method, Higher Secondary
Students, Teaching Effectiveness, Instructional Strategies, Academic Achievement
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction
in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Usha, K., & Malathi, S. (2015). Effectiveness of teaching economics through
concept
attainment model over traditional method of teaching to higher secondary school students. Indian
Educational
Researcher, 8(1), 17–22.
Received: December 1, 2014;
Revision Received: January 1, 2015;
Accepted: January 19, 2015.
Responding Author: Usha, K. @ usha@gmail.com
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