Date of Award

1-1-2000

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Education

Department

-

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

The primary objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of programmed instructional material as complementary aids in the teaching of a Mathematical topic, specifically Reflection, to Form Two pupils in a rural secondary school. This is an experimental study. The design of the study is the pre-test-post-test type. An experimental group and a control group were involved in this study. The experimental group used the programmed text, Learn It Yourself Reflection (LIY Reflection) which comprises 4 Units while the control group followed the normal classroom instruction. The students have similar pre-requisite as there is no significant difference in the pre-requisite test performance on the pupils from both the experimental and control groups. The students in both the experimental and the control groups performed better in their post-test mean scores as compared to their pre-test mean scores. However, the posttest mean scores in the experimental group in each unit is higher than that of the control group. It does infer that experimental group performed better. Group t- test shows no significant differences between post-test mean scores of the two groups in Units l and 4. However, significant differences are indicated for Units 2, 3 and the Overall Units. The significant differences in the scores of the Overall Units show that the UY Reflection materials do play a major role in improving students' performance. The students responded positively towards the use of LIY Reflection with 100% of them stating that LIY Reflection is interesting and 85 .7% of them recommending the usage of programmed instructional material for other topics, subjects or pupils.

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Dissertation (M.A) -- Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya, 2000.

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