Effect of mastery learning method on performance, attitude of the weak students in chemistry

AbstractIn this study, effect of mastery learning method on performance and attitude of weak students in chemistry was considered. In this research which was done experimentally, 40 high school students who were 16 years old were randomly classified into two control and Experimental groups of 20 students after selection and matching. Experimental group was taught in mastery learning method and control group was taught in common method. In this study, chemistry attitude questionnaire (Class-Chem)and academic achievement test were implemented on both groups as pre-test and post-test and multivariate variance analysis method was used in order to determine effect of learning method on each one of the groups and the following results were obtained after data analysis.Mastery learning method is more effective on performance of weak students in higher levels of learning method than in common learning method.Mastery learning method caused to increase positive changes in attitude of the weak students to chemistry learning