The effect of science and tecnology course activities based on active learning over problem solving skill and achievements of fifth grade students

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the activities based on active learning of fifth grade Science and Tecnology course over both problem solving skill and achievements of students. In the reseach experimental study relevant to "pretest and posttest control group" was conducted. Activities based on active learning were used for experiment group, current MEB curriculum were used for control group. Research was held on 39 5th grade students as 20 in experiment and 19 in control group in Cemil Türker primary school in 2012-2013 educational year. In order to determine the retention of the acquired knowledge, "problem solving skill test" and "science achievement test" were used as pretest, posttest and retention test for the experimental and control groups. After the aritmatical averarage and standart deviation were given descriptively, data obtained from the problem solving skills test and achivement test during the reseach was analyzed with t-test for independent groups and one way ANCOVA for repeated measures. Consequently, according to Science and Tecnology achievement and problem solving posttests' score, it was obtained that the aritmatical average of the achievement and problem solving skill grades of the experimental group was highly more than the average of the control group.