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AN EVALUATION OF EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING CALCULUS USING MODULE BASED ON COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY TO THE ACCOUNT AND IT STUDENTS

Norazman Arbin, Sazelli Abdul Ghani, Shamsul Rijal Muhammad Sabri, Firdaus Mohamad Hamzah


The quality of teaching and learning is an important educational aspect. Some of the ideal teaching and learning approaches may be able to make students easy to understand the knowledge that is being presented to them. A teaching based module is one of the individual teaching methods that could be of any variations. The purpose of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of a module which utilizes the cooperative learning for teaching Calculus for limit, derivative and integral. The sample consists of 54 all first year Account and IT students from Sultan Idris Education University. A set of questions of related topics (pre and post) has been used as an instrument to collect data. A quasi experimental method is used for this study to determine whether the use of a module in teaching and learning of calculus would be able to improve students understanding and achievement. The data is analyzed using inferential statistics involving the paired sample t test and the independent t test. The result shows that students have positive inclination towards the module in terms of understanding.