Tay Sheng Joo (2014) The effectiveness of hand-on investigation on students' conceptual understanding and curiosity towards science. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of hands-on investigation on students' conceptual understanding and curiosity towards science. There were 70 samples of Primary Year 5 students selected from two schools located in Tenom, Sabah. Samples were divided into two groups, which 35 of them included in the treatment group that underwent hands-on investigation and the other 35 samples in the control group. The instruments used in this study were the pre- and post- test to examine the effects of hands-on investigation on students' conceptual understanding; and the preand post- questionnaire to examine the effects of hands-on investigation on students' curiosity towards science. Data collected was analysed in both way: descriptively and inferentially. The findings indicated that hands-on investigation had showed no significance difference in the post-test between treatment group and control group; nevertheless, researcher found that treatment group students had better improvement than those who are not. Besides that, findings also proved that hands-on investigation had positive effect on students' curiosity towards science.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Keyword: | Hands-on investigation, Conceptual understanding, Curiosity |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) > Q1-390 Science (General) > Q1-295 General |
| Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Psychology and Education |
| Depositing User: | DG MASNIAH AHMAD - |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2023 10:03 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2023 10:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37538 |
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