Abstract
THE EFFECT OF AN ONLINE TEACHING MODULE ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND CONCEPTUAL LEARNING OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
This study aimed to examine the short and long-term effects of the teaching module, which was developed to include all three dimensions of sustainable development, on the academic achievement and conceptual learning of middle school students. The module, which consists of a total of ten parts, has been applied in the online environment for eighteen hours. In the research conducted with 7th-grade students consisting of 14 students in total, a quantitative research design was used. The data were collected through an achievement test for sustainable development goals and a concept map. They were applied to the students three times, before and after the intervention, and five months after again for retention. Quantitative data collected as a result of this study revealed that the module facilitates students' academic achievement and learning concepts about sustainable development. On the other hand, the fact that the retention test scores of the concept map either remain stable or decrease reveals that there is more to be done to structure the sustainable development concepts, which is a new subject.
Keywords
Sustainable development, teaching module, online, academic achievement
