Developing Thinking Skills among Third Grade (Class 4) Pupils in Some Elementary Practising Schools in Edéa, Cameroon Using Lessons on the Human Skeleton - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.2 No.11, November 2015

Developing Thinking Skills among Third Grade (Class 4) Pupils in Some Elementary Practising Schools in Edéa, Cameroon Using Lessons on the Human Skeleton ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102071 842 Downloads 1,652 Views Citations

Author(s)

Jeannette Mothia¹, Emmanuel Noumi^2*, George Nditafon¹

Affiliation(s)

¹Didactics of Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Education, Postgraduate Centre for Training and Research in Human, Social and Educational Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
²Laboratory of Plant Biology, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

ABSTRACT

The objective of this study was to introduce an educational tool in primary school that could facilitate the development of thinking skills in learners. Klopfer’s taxonomy of educational objectives was used to introduce the fundamental notion of the hypothetico-deductive theory aimed at immersing the class into task situations of identifying the educational aspects in a lesson. A total of 270 Class 4 (third graders) participated in the study. Result revealed that at the pretest, the mean performance of those in the control group was 9.53/20 and for those in the experimental group it was 9.09/20. Up to one month following experimentation, pupils in the experimental group registered an improved mean performance (11.33/20) in the posttest, while the control group registered a drop (8.84/20) compared to their mean pretest performances. Those in the experimental group further showed greater interest and involvement in the construction of their knowledge and thinking skill compared to those in the control group. The approach appeared to be beneficial to both pupils and teachers. It places learners in a teaching/learning situation that motivates the development of thinking and problem-solving skills.

KEYWORDS

Educational Resources, Didactics of Life and Earth Sciences, Learning Thinking Skills, Human Skeleton

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Mothia, J. , Noumi, E. and Nditafon, G. (2015) Developing Thinking Skills among Third Grade (Class 4) Pupils in Some Elementary Practising Schools in Edéa, Cameroon Using Lessons on the Human Skeleton. Open Access Library Journal, 2, 1-15. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1102071.

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