EFFECTIVENESS OF FLIPPED AND BLENDED CLASSROOM LEARNING APPROACHES ON STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN GENETICS CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGY

Abstract

The study determines the difference in the mean achievement
scores of students taught genetics using flipped classroom,
blended learning and traditional classroom approaches and
investigated the interacting effect of learning approaches and
gender on students achievements. The study adopted the non
equivalent pretest-posttest control group research design which is
a type of quasi-experimental research design. Three (3) research
questions were raised, hypothesized and tested at 0.05 level of
significant. The population of this study comprised 497 senior
secondary school two (II) Biology students from the 11public co
educational schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The sample of the study is made up of 74 students comprising of 34
male and 40 female drawn from three intact classes. The study
utilized the Biology Achievement Test on Genetics (BATG) as
instrument for data collection. The content, face, and structure
validity of the instrument was ascertained by experts in science
education. The reliability of the BATG was obtained using Kuder
Richardson Formulae 21 (KR-21) and a reliability coefficient
index of 0.786wasobtained. Mean, standard deviation, Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA), and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) were
used to test the hypotheses. The findings of this study were there is
no significant difference in mean posttest achievement scores of
students taught genetics concepts using Flipped classroom,
Blended learning and Traditional learning approaches. However
the participants in the blended learning group achieved the most,
followed by those in the flipped learning and the traditional
learning approach got the least achievement. The results also
showed that there is a significant difference in male and female
students' achievement scores taught genetics concepts in favour of
the male. The study concluded amongst others that blended
learning is the most impactful on students' achievement.