The effect of the difference in the size of groups, the number of educational activities and the interaction between them in the mirrored learning environment on academic achievement and educational satisfaction in a general statistics course for the students of the Mathematics Department at Al-Jouf University

Alenazi, Fatimah Mogbil F; Mohamed, Munira Mohamed Hamad; Ghazala, Ayat Fawzy Ahmed

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2022.232949

The effect of the difference in the size of groups, the number of educational activities and the interaction between them in the mirrored learning environment on academic achievement and educational satisfaction in a general statistics course for the students of the Mathematics Department at Al-Jouf University

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Department of Education and Psychology, College of Science and Arts in Al-Qurayyat, Al-Jouf University.

10.21608/jsrep.2022.232949

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he aim of the current research is to identify the impact of the difference in the size of groups (small/medium) and the number of activities (little/medium/ large) And the interaction between them on students’ academic achievement and educational satisfaction in flipped learning environment. The experimental group consisted of 27 female students of the second year in the Department of Mathematics, and they were divided into 6 experimental groups based on the size of groups and number of activities. The researchers used approach experimental the study investigated the effect of the independent variable, which was the interaction between the size of the group (small/ medium) with the number of learning activities (little/ medium/ large) on the dependent variables which were the academic achievement and educational satisfaction in flipped learning environment. The achievement test and educational satisfaction questionnaire were used as tools to collect the data. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.05) between the mean score of the experimental groups on achievement pos-test and educational satisfaction due to the interaction between the size of the groups (small /medium) and the number of educational activities (little /medium/large) in the flipped learning environment .

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