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Volume 8 Issue 3 (March, 2020)

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Assessment of effective teaching strategies for learning style and academic achievement of students
Hemant Kumar Saini, Narendra Kumar Sumeriya, Hemlata Saini

Background: Effective teaching requires flexibility, creativity and responsibility in order to provide an instructional environment able to respond to the learner’s individual needs. The present study was conducted to assess most effective teaching strategies for learning style, and the differences concerning their academic achievement of students. Materials & Methods: The present study was conducted among 150 teachers of both genders. 80 were science teachers and 70 were math teachers. We recruited 380 students in this study. Two lecturers implemented five categories of teaching strategies: the graphical organization of information, the cooperative learning, the investigation, the debate and the problem solving. Each strategy was implemented during about four hours within the same course. The students were divided into four categories: assimilators; convergers; divergers; accommodators. Results: 35 science teachers were assimilator learners, 15 were converger learner, 20 were diverger learner and 10 were accommodator learner. 25 maths teachers were assimilator learners, 15 were converger learner, 18 were diverger learner and 12 were accommodator learner. Achievement scores after applying each teaching strategy ranged from 6.91 (lowest) to 8.82 (Highest). There was statistically significant difference between the achievement scores obtained by three categories of learners (convergers, divergers and accommodators). There was a highly significant difference emerged after the implementation of cooperative learning strategy. The cooperative learning represents an effective strategy for Sciences convergers (t=3.16; p< 0.05) and a strongly productive one for the Maths diverger (t= -5.61; p<0.05). Conclusion: Authors found significant differences between the two categories of students have emerged in relation with the most effective teaching strategies corresponding to each learning style. Key words: Convergers, divergers, teaching strategies

 
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