The effects of Students Teams-Achievement Divisions method on academic success and permanence in Social Sciences lesson

In this study, the effect of Students Teams- Achievement Divisions method to academic success and permanence was examined in the lesson of Social Knowledge for 4th grade students. The research was involved 2 different classes of students from a primary school in Sultangazi in İstanbul, in the 2012- 2013 academic year. The aplication was carried out on 48 students. In this study, pretest ? posttest control group model and action research were used. The pretest and posttest were used as data collecting instruments. For the reliability of the scale, KR-20 reliability analysis was done. KR-20 reliability coefficient of the test was found as 0.89. The results received from developed measurement instruments were subjected to statistical analyses individually and the averages of the groups and level of significance were analyzed. The "t test" was used for the comparison of the scores which the measurement instruments had given. At the end of application, the views of students were taken. Also, opinions obtained from assessment were analyzed with NVivo7 computer programme.According to this study, academic success of both experiment groups to whom learning Students Teams- Achievement Divisions method were applied was higher than control groups to whom traditional methods were applied. Key Words: Students Team- Achievement Divisions, Social Knowledge Education