The effectiveness of the portfolio on the students' achievement in " the systems of body structures" unit in sixth grade science and technology lesson in elementary school

ABSTRACT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PORTFOLIO ON THE STUDENTS? ACHIEVEMENT IN ?THE SYSTEMS OF BODY STRUCTURES? UNIT IN SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LESSON IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (M.SC.THESIS) GÜVEN, EZGİ The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the portfolio on students? achievement, permanence of their acquired learnings and removal of their failure causes in ?the systems of body structures? unit in sixth grade science and technology lesson in elementary school. This study is implemented on two different clases of 6th grade students in Ankara city Çankaya Hamdullah Suphi Primary School. In one of the this classes, subjects of the?the systems of body structures? ünit were given portfolio, while in other class subjects of the?the systems of body structures? ünit were given traditional teaching methods. Before the research application achievement test and failure causes questionnaire were given as pre test to both classes and after the application same tests were applied as a post test. Permanence test were given both groups after three months of application finished. Paired sample test, independent sample test and ANOVA was used to test study?s hypothesis. The results analysis of data showed that experimental group who were taught with the portfolio had a significantly higher scores with respect to achievement related to ?the systems of body structures? unit than kontrol group who were taught traditional teaching methods. In addition the results showed that, experimental group students the reasons of the failure were removed with respect to kontrol group. Besides, the results of permanence test showed that knowledge which is taught was more permanent in experimental group than kontrol group.