To the question of effectiveness of game-based and traditional teaching of biology concepts in English at school

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to compare the effectiveness of game-based and traditional teaching in learning and retention of the 7th grade biology concepts. The population of the research consisted of female and male students of the Boarding School for gifted children named after N. Nurmakov. The participants were selected using cluster sampling and were randomly divided into the experimental group and the control group (20 participants in each group). The participants in the experimental group were taught according to game-based teaching and the participants in the control group underwent traditional teaching. The learning test and the retention test were conducted one week and four weeks later after teaching each method. Data description was done and after analyzing the results some conclusions were made.