| Summary: | 碩士 === 明道大學 === 教學藝術研究所 === 97 === The purpose of this study, based on the social studies of Kang-xuan version 2008 in elementary school in the 2nd semester, was to explore the effectiveness of concept mapping instruction on social studies academic achievement. In addition, this study also explored the interaction of the strategies and learning ability of students in social studies.
An experiment with nonequivalent groups pretest-posttest was conducted. The subjects were 59 fourth grade students in two classes. Twenty-nine students in one class were assigned to the experimental group, and thirty students in the other class were assigned to the control group. The experimental group and control group received a nine-week experiment, the total of 18 classes. The two groups received the same instructional contents. The experimental group received concept mapping instructions, while the control group received the general instruction as written in the Teachers’ Guidebook. The collected data were analyzed by the two-way Analysis of Covariance, and used the group and learning ability of students in social studies as the independent variables, the posttest of the social studies achievement, the second posttest of the retention as the dependent variables, the pretest that was the total average scores of the social studies in the semester as the covariates. The major findings of this study are as follows:
1. The social studies achievement: There is a significant difference between the two groups. The experimental group has higher scores than the control group.
2. The social studies retention: the statistics of the comparison between experimental
and control groups are not remarkable
3. The social studies achievement: There is an interaction between the strategies and the learning ability of students in social studies. Groups the student lowly to accept the different teaching strategy have the remarkable difference in the study achievement.
4. The social studies retention: There is no interaction between the strategies and the learning ability of students in social studies.
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