The Impact of Participatory Teaching Methods on Social and Citizenship Skills of Secondary School Students

This study was intended to investigate the impact of participatory teaching methods on social andcitizenship skills of secondary school students of Iranshahr with a pseudo-empirical method bydesigning pretest, post-test and control group. The statistical population were four classes of 25students with normal distribution of gender as well as experimental and control groups which werechosen by random cluster sampling method. The measuring tools in this research were Social Skillsand Citizenship Skills questionnaires. To analyze the descriptive data, statistical methods likecalculating all averages and standard deviations, and to analyze hypotheses, t-test and analysis ofcovariance were used. The results showed that participatory teaching methods have a positiveimpact on social and citizenship skills of students. Also, it was proved that, as opposed to socialskills, there was a meaningful difference between the citizenship education scores of males andfemales.

Keywords:

Participatory Teaching , Social Skills , Citizenship Education