Students’ Attitude Towards Research Based Teaching Method (RBTM) In Physics At 10th Grade Level

Abstract

The study was conducted to assess the impact of research base teaching on the attitudes of secondary school students towards Physics while teaching Physics to grade 10th. Boyer Commission in 1998 recommended that making research-based learning the standard, it refers to the point strongly made by John Dewey a century ago that learning is based on discovery guided by mentoring rather than on the transmission of information. Commission further recommended that to turn the prevailing culture of receivers into culture of inquirers, a culture in which students share an adventure of discovery. A Sample of (120) students from Government Higher Secondary School Pind Hashim Khan and Government Girls High School No. 2 Haripur were selected. Data was collected by administering pre-test and post-test. The collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistics i.e. mean scores, standard deviation, standard error of mean. The difference between variables were calculated by applying independent sample t-test. Result showed significant difference between pre-test and post-test of secondary school students while teaching Physics to grade 10th through research base teaching method.