| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 應用數學系所 === 103 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of learning community on math learning of high school students in “Permutation and Combination”. In this quasi-experimental research, two 10th grade classes in a Taichung high school are involved in the five-week experiment in the first semester of the 2014 academic year. The two classes were divided into an experimental group (45 students), and a control group (46 students) .
After learning “Logic, Set Theory and Counting Principle”, both of groups took an academic achievement exam as the pretest. Based on the results of the pretest, three subgroups were thus formed: the top 27% as the high-score, the middle 46% as the middle-score, and the rest 27% as the low-score. The experimental group received learning community instruction, and the control group received lectures. The study aimed to explore the students’learning attitude and academic achievement. The results are as follows:
1. Based on the pre-test and post-test of the learning attitude scale, there was no significant difference between both of the groups in learning “Permutation and Combination.”
2. Compared with the control group in the learning attitude scale, the learning attitude of low-score subgroup in the experimental group was better. Therefore, it is suggested that learning community can help enhance low-achievers learning attitude more than lectures.
3. Analyzed from the results of achievement tests in math, there was no significant difference between both groups during five weeks.
Finally, based on the study, pedagogical implications of learning community are provided for future research.
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