Indoor-Outdoor Bodily Kinesthetic Teaching Technique and Manipulative with Student-Student Discourse: Effects on Students' Achievement and Retention in Plane Trigonometry

The study investigated the effects of indoor-outdoor bodily kinesthetic  teaching technique on  students’ achievement and retention in Plane Trigonometry. It was conducted at Misamis Oriental General Comprehensive High School, Cagayan de Oro City. Four intact sections  from heterogeneous classes  were randomly chosen as the participants of the study. Two sections were assigned as control groups. The control groups were exposed to manipulative and student-students discourse which is recommended by some researchers as good teaching strategies. The manipulative used for the control group was trigo-clock. For the experimental group, two sections were assigned. The experimental group was exposed to indoor-outdoor games such as trigo-card, trigo-trip, human-trigo sungka, and treasure hunting. The study used Pretest-posttest quasi-experimental control group design. The participants were given pretest before the treatment, posttest after the treatment, and retention test two weeks after the posttest, using the 25 items  teacher-made achievement test. The teacher-made test has a reliability coefficient of 0.83. The data collected were analyzed  using mean, standard deviation, and analysis of covariance. Results of the analysis revealed that the  achievement and retention scores of the students exposed to indoor-outdoor bodily kinesthetic teaching technique were as good as those students exposed to student–student discourse and manipulative. The researchers concluded that indoor-outdoor bodily kinesthetic teaching technique is a good teaching technique. The indoor-outdoor bodily kinesthetic teaching technique is  recommended to be used by the  teachers in mathematics as  alternative teaching strategy to help increase students’ achievement and retention scores in Trigonometry.

Keyword: Kinesthetic teaching technique, achievement, retention