Effectiveness of Teaching through Mind Mapping Technique

Abstract

This Present research through mind mapping techniques has been done to check the effectiveness of teaching. For this the researcher has used Tony buzan’s mind mapping technique to check the effectiveness of teaching through mind mapping. This is why the main purpose of the research – the effectiveness of mind mapping technique was checked in relation to the student’s academic accomplishments and for which class-8th Social Science Subject’s case study for mind mapping was designed. Under this study the teaching method was taken as Independent variable where as academic accomplishment is taken as dependable variable and Gender was taken as Converter Variable. This research was experimental in nature as to check the effectiveness of the Mind Mapping technique two groups has been created. The experimental group was taught through mind mapping technique and the control group was taught through traditional method. As a sample the researcher had selected the sample of 120 students of Prerna School, a Guajarati medium High-elementary school situated in Sector-6 of Gandhinagar, Gujarat. To check the effectiveness of the mind mapping technique case criteria was formulated. Conclusions were made after getting the T-ratio based upon the average score of the test case, standard deviation and standard error of the average score and the aspect of mind mapping technique were known by the questionnaires filled and it was found that the Mind Mapping technique was more effective than Traditional method.