THE EFFECTS OF TEACHING THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGES USING VIDEO AND DISCUSSION TEACHING TECHNIQUES ON SUCCESS LEVELS OF THE 7 GRADE STUDENTS

This study comprises 48 students at 7 grade attending at İzmir Menemen Tevfik Fikret Elementary School in 2007. The study has pre and post test design. Two teacher centered teaching methods were administered to the experimental and conrol groups. The physical and chemical changes were taught to the experimental group using videos and in the control group the concepts are taught to students using classroom discussion. The pre end post examination tests were given to understand the success levels of the both groups. Such multiple choice test includes items regarding daily life. At the end of this research it is understood that there is not any meaningful diferences between both groups considering the teacher centred teaching methods. This result is very critical of how two active learning strategies such as video-basedand discussion methods could be an expository learning tool, which refers to teacher-centeredteaching strategies