Enhancing Students’ Achievement and Investigating Students’ Satisfaction in Learning Mathematics By using a Flipped Classroom

Abstract

The objectives of this classroom action research were to enhance students’ mathematical achievement and to survey students’ satisfaction with learning by using a flipped classroom. The participants were 32 grade 11 students who enrolled in the second semester of the academic year 2019 at a secondary school in Bangkok, Thailand. The topic used in this study was Vectors in Three Dimensions. The instruments were 7 lesson plans using flipped classrooms and a satisfaction survey. Before class, students studied online learning through video clips, handouts, homework, and quizzes. During class, students discussed the contents that they had studied from home, solved harder problems, and got individual help from the teacher. Learning lasted 14 periods with 50 minutes in each period. There were three cycles of action plans. Data were collected from pretest, posttest, and satisfaction surveys. Data were analyzed by using the Effectiveness Index. The results showed that: 1) the Effectiveness Index of the flipped classroom was 0.80 which revealed that students’ achievement increased by 80 percent from the beginning; and 2) students’ satisfaction in three categories: students’ understanding category, learning activities category, and learning atmosphere category by using flipped classroom were at least satisfied, satisfied, and very satisfied, respectively.