A GENDER BASED COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TEACHING PHYSICS THROUGH CAI AND ORDINARY LECTURE METHOD

Abstract

The recent study was undertaken to see the comparative effectiveness of CAI and traditional lecture method on the academic achievement and interest of the secondary school students in the subject of physics. A sample of total 144 students (80 female and 66 male) was randomly selected from two Schools (University Wensam College and St. Helens High School) of Dera Ismail Khan. The sample was equated into two groups on the basis of pre-test. One group was randomly assigned as experimental group which was taught through CAI method while the second was called the control group which was taught with the traditional lecture method. The research hypotheses that there is no significant difference between the CAI and traditional lecture method on student’s achievements and interest were tested. The research hypothesis on gender differences was also tested. The achievement tests and interest inventory were used for the purpose of data collection. The result shows that there was significant difference between the two groups. The experimental group outperformed the control group on academic achievement and interest score. The Gender differences were also observed, the Female outperformed the male on academic achievement while male performed significantly better than female on interest inventory