USING SLOWMATION AS A TEACHING APPROACH AND ITS EFFECT ON BIOLOGY ACHIEVEMENTS OF PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS

Abstract

Digital technologies offer increasing opportunities for students in primary or secondary schools to create their own digital media. “Slowmation” (abbreviated from “Slow Motion Animation”) is a simplified way of making an animation so that students, themselves, can create it as a new way of learning about some science concepts. In this study, pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design with control group was used with retention test. During the study, for the experimental group of students, additionally to biology instruction, slowmation has been used as a teaching approach. The implementation lasted 9 weeks. The data gathered by an 18 question-multiple choice test. It was developed by researcher and used as pre-, post- and retention test in order to measure students’ biology course achievement. As a result of the research, it was determined that using slowmations as teaching approach for biology instruction increased the students’ biology course achievement more significantly for post- and retention implementations.