Abstract
This action research aimed to improve the instructional process through the flipped classroom teaching strategies in order to enhance academic achievement and interest for acid and base topic among the form four chemistry students. The location for this study is located at one of the secondary school in the Hulu Langat District, Selangor. The respondents in this study consists of 32 chemistry students with 17 boys and 15 girls. The research model chosen in this action research is Kurt Lewin’s Model (1948). There were two types of instruments used in this study namely as achievement test which involve in the pre-test and the post-test and a survey to measure level of interest among the respondents towards the flipped classroom teaching strategies. The data was analyzed in descriptive and inferential statistics (paired sample t-Test) to determine the value of mean, standard of deviation and the differences of mean’s score between the pre-test and post-test. Findings in this study showed that there was an improvement in the post-test with value of mean 66.56 (SD= 3.88) compared to the pre-test with value of mean 51.72 (SD= 4.11). There was a significant differences of mean’s score (t= -23.914, df= 31, p<0.05) between pre-test and post-test in this study. The level of interest among the students towards the flipped classroom strategies showed medium high score (Mean= 3.73). These findings showed that flipped classroom teaching strategies could enhance the academic achievement as well as student’s interest among the form four chemistry students. The implementation of flipped classroom strategies with the combination of ICT is one of the techniques that can be used to scale up quality of learning across Malaysia using the ICT as stated in the Malaysia Educational Blueprint (2013-2025) at the seven shift.
Highlights
Over the past two decades, the implementation of information communication and technology (ICT) in education had changed the teaching and learning style in Malaysia
Regarding to the area of student’s interest of implementing flipped classroom teaching strategy in teaching and learning for acid and base topic, the result and finding in this study indicate that students were interested to learn this topic through the flipped classroom teaching model
This study was aimed to determine if flipped classroom teaching strategies could enhance the academic achievement and student’s interest for acid and base topic among form four chemistry students
Summary
Over the past two decades, the implementation of information communication and technology (ICT) in education had changed the teaching and learning style in Malaysia. The instructional process nowadays was beyond the four wall of classroom through the development of technologies. According to Malaysia Educational Blueprint 2013-2025 in 7th shift, the ministry of education will leverage ICT to scale up quality learning across Malaysia by providing internet technology to schools all over in Malaysia (Ministry of Education, 2012). Bergmann and Sams (2012) had pointed out that the teaching and learning process while using the internet technology may leverage the learning process in the classroom to ensure that teachers may interact students for a longer time rather than giving lecture. Teachers and students may install this application in their smartphone to make the instructional process become more interesting and effective by giving the teaching materials such as videos, notes and exercises earlier before the class has started
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