190 Effectiveness of Group Discussion Method of Teaching and Traditional Teaching Method in the Subject of Science at Elementary level

Abstract

It is an experimental research and design of research is pretest posttest control group. Major 
objective of the study is to find out the effectiveness of discussion method of 
teaching.Population of the study was 158 students of class 8th of Government Elementary 
school Chak Shahhbaz District Mandi Baha ud Din and Government Elementary School 
Melu kohna District Mandi Baha ud Din enrolled for the session of 2025-2026 in the subject 
of Science. Two groups of 30 students were randomly selected from the students of class 8th 
of both schools who got above 65% marks in pretest which was prepared by researcher from 
class 7th text book. Group of 30 students from Government Elementary school Chak 
Shahhbaz was nominated as Experimental group and was taught chapter 1&2 general science 
grad 8th through group discussion method for time period of one month and group of 30 
students from Government Elementary school Melu kohna was nominated as control group 
and was taught chapter 1&2 general science grad 8th through traditional method of teaching 
for the time period of one month. At the completion of one month teaching, a posttest was 
prepared and conducted by the researcher to the both groups and marked the posttest of the 
both groups for data collection. For data analysis t test was used. Major finding of the study 
indicates that results are better of that group which was taught through group discussion 
method of teaching. The findings give superiority to the group discussion method of teaching 
because this method of teaching has positive effect on students’ academic achievement.