The Effectiveness of scientific attitude toward Physics teaching through Inquiry Method Verses Traditional Teaching Lecture Method of female students at Secondary School Level in Pakistan

This study was designed to find the comparative effects of scientific attitude toward Physic of

females’ students of Grade 9 teaching Physics through inquiry teaching method and

traditional lecture method teaching. The objectives of the study was (a ) to compare the

scientific attitude toward physics Grade 9 of female students teaching Physics through

inquiry teaching method (ITM) and traditional teaching lecture method (TTLM).one hundred

and twenty (120) sciences females students of grade 9, from two schools served as sample of

the study. Students of each school were divided into two equivalent groups’ i.e control and

experimental group on the basis of pre scientific attitude toward Physics test. Experimental

groups were taught through inquiry method and control group by traditional lecture method

for twenty two weeks. Post scientific attitude test were administered after treatment to assess

the difference in scientific attitudes toward Physics of groups. The data obtained were

tabulated and analyzed to compute Mean, Standard deviation and t-value at level 0.05

through SPSS 16.0 software. The post scientific attitude to Physics test shows that

experimental group was significantly better than the control group.

Keywords: Effectiveness ; scientific attitude ; Physics ; Inquiry Method ; Traditional

Teaching Lecture Method of female students at Secondary School Level in Pakistan

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