Effects of Brain-Based Learning on Students’ Achievement Levels and Attitudes towards English Lesson

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of Brain-Based Learning method on students’ achievement levels and attitudes towards the lesson in the 6th grade students’ English lesson. The research was carried out in 2008 – 2009 education-instruction year in Karatli Sehit Sahin Yilmaz Elementary School, Nigde. Totally 60 students in two different classes in the 6th grade of this school participated in the study. The pre/posttest control group research model was used in this study. The data obtained in the study were analyzed by the computer program SPSS 15.0. The arithmetic means and standard deviations were calculated for each group. In
order to test the significance between the groups, the t-test was used. The significance level was taken as .05. The results of the research showed a significant difference between the attitude scores of the experiment group and the control group. It was also found out that the Brain-Based Learning activities were more effective in the positive development of the students’ achievement levels. At the end of the research, it is revealed that the students who are educated by the Brain-Based Learning method are more successful and have a higher motivation than the students who are educated by the traditional instruction methods.