Seyyed Amir Ahmad Mozaffari; Leila Sabaghiyanrad; Hojat Hatami
Abstract
The major aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two teachingmethods of traditional (common) and integrated for physical education on learningbiology and developing social skills in male junior students. This study was semiexperimentalwhich was conducted in Islamshahr city for 12 weeks. ...
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The major aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two teachingmethods of traditional (common) and integrated for physical education on learningbiology and developing social skills in male junior students. This study was semiexperimentalwhich was conducted in Islamshahr city for 12 weeks. The statisticalpopulation consisted of 79 volunteer junior students who studied the second gradeand 52 students were selected by an IQ test and were assigned to two groups oftraditional (n=26) and integrated (n=26) purposively. During these three months,physical education and biology were taught by the common method (separately)for the traditional group while biology was integrated with physical education andtaught for the integrated group. The data were analyzed using Wilcoxon test, UMann Whitney test and t test. The results revealed a significant difference inlearning biology between traditional and integrated groups at α<0.05. The t testresults revealed a significant difference in the mean scores of impulsive behaviorsbetween traditional and integrated groups at α<0.01, that is, the mean scoressignificantly decreased in the integrated method compared to the traditionalmethod. Also, there was a significant difference in the mean scores of suitablesocial behaviors of subjects between integrated and traditional groups (α<0.001).In other words, mean scores of the students in the integrated group significantlyincreased compared to the traditional group.