Abstract :
The study aimed to find the effects of Reciprocal Teaching (RT) on
students’ achievement in physics at secondary level. RT is an
instructional strategy that was taken place in the form of a dialogue
between teacher and students for the small text segments that involved
four strategies in turns i.e. predicting, clarifying, questioning and
summarizing. For this purpose, the posttest only quasi experimental
design was used that involved two groups. One group was the
experimental group that received an unusual treatment of RT and other
group was control group that followed ordinary class room teaching. The
population of the study was 12696 students who enrolled in the high
schools in the area of District Nowshera, whereas118 students were
selected as the sample in four selected secondary schools. To find out the
effect of RT by comparing experimental and control groups, a post test
was administered. Descriptive statistics of t-test, ANOVA, Mean,
Median, and Standard Deviation were used for data analysis. It was
found that incorporation of RT has high effect on students’ learning
achievement than the traditional teaching. Significant difference between
experimental and control groups was recorded. RT strategy is highly
recommended in physics teaching to be used at secondary level for
students’ improvements in learning physics. Teachers should be given
Pre service and in service trainings for incorporation of RT in classroom
environment.
Keyword :
Reciprocal Teaching, Instructional activity, Secondary level, Learning Achievement.