The effect of the use of cornering technique in the 7th grade social studies lesson on the academic achievement of students

The aim of this research is to reveal the effect of cornering technique, which is one of the active learning methods, on the academic success of students by applying it in the 7th grade social studies lesson. Within the scope of this research, a lesson plan was prepared by the researcher for the "People, Places and Environments" unit in the 7th grade social studies textbook, using the cornering technique. In the study, the quasi-experimental design model, which is one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The study group of the research consists of 7th grade students studying in a state secondary school in the city center of Konya in the 2021-2022 academic year. Students in the experimental and control groups were selected based on the previous year's report grades. The number of participants of the study consisted of 47 people, 24 in the experimental group and 23 in the control group. The subject was explained to the experimental group according to the lesson plan prepared by the researcher using the cornering technique. On the other hand, subject lectures were given to the control group by a teacher in a public school according to the program-based teaching method. Before the application, the academic achievement test prepared by the researcher was applied to both groups as a pre-test. After 5 weeks of lecture, academic achievement test was applied to both groups as a posttest this time. For the academic achievement test prepared by the researcher, item difficulty analysis, item discrimination analysis and reliability (KR-20) analysis were performed. The academic achievement test consists of 25 questions in total. The data obtained after the application were analyzed using statistical methods. Frequency and percentage analysis were performed to determine the distribution of the participants according to the experimental and control groups. Pretest and posttest achievement scores of students on descriptive analysis was conducted. In the analysis of the sub-problems of the research, the distribution of the data was analyzed with the Shapiro-Wilk test. According to the analysis, it was concluded that the data were normally distribute. Independent sample t-test was used to determine the difference between the experimental and control groups. According to the analysis, it was concluded that the data were normally distributed. Independent sample t-test was used to determine the difference between the experimental and control groups. The dependent sample t-test was used to determine the differences between the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental and control groups. As a result, the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental and control groups were compared, and it was determined that there was a significant difference in favor of the experimental group. This research reveals that the experimental group, in which the cornering technique was used in the lecture, was more successful academically than the control group, in which the lesson was taught with the program-based teaching method .