The Effect of Personalization in Physics Teaching
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The objective of this study is to propound whether personalized teaching affect achievement in accordance with Physics word problems and whether achievement in Physics differ according to different learning modalities. The study is an experimental study conducted using posttest control group design. Experimental and control group had been taught the subject, motion (projectiles) on Earth in Physics lesson for three weeks. However, personalized instruction was used in experimental group and traditional instruction was applied to control group. At the end of the program, students’ achievements were determined using posttests. Study group is formed with 59 10th grade students and it consists of 36 girls and 23 boys who were selected from a high school in Ankara. To be able to apply personalized teaching, information like the names of students’ favorite subject, best friend, favorite animal, favorite fruit and food and the name of the secondary school they had graduated as well as some student information like their name and surname, gender, the name of parents and siblings were taken through information form. Ten questions in course books related to Motion on Earth (projectiles) existed in tenth grade Physics lesson education program were personalized by the field experts and used in measuring achievement. Learning Modality Inventory developed by Simsek (2002) was used in determining students’ learning modalities. At the end of the research, there was not a significant difference between the group who had taken personalized questions and the group with non-personalized questions. It was seen that there was no significant difference between the achievement of solving personalized and non-personalized Physics word problems in terms of gender and learning modalities.    Â
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Keywords: Personalization of teaching; Learning modality; Students’ interests.
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