Authors : Irina N. Andreeva, Kseniya Yu. Badina, Svetlana A. Mukhina, Olga A. Makarova, Elena V. Maltseva and Marina A. Lavrentyeva
Abstract: The aim of the current research is to study the efficiency in the application of methods used in personality-oriented education while teaching natural scientific subjects to primary school children. Experimental research was performed on the basis of the pupils of the 3rd and 4th classes of comprehensive secondary schools in the city of Yoshkar-Ola, the Republic of Mari El. The research covered 120 pupils. The efficiency of training was analyzed according the following parameters: the level of visual and imaginative thinking; visual active thinking; the dominating type of thinking; the level of mathematical education of primary school children; the level of well-formedness of knowledge and ways to treat the surrounding world. Several methods were used as didactic materials: “Rubik’s Cube”, “Raven’s Martices”, “the ability to do sums in the head”, “Complex Figure” by A. Rey, the method defining the way of thinking, tasks that were specially elaborated for the final math test and the test on the subject “world around us”. The obtained experimental facts were analyzed with the help of t-criterion of student for independent and dependent samples. The analysis of the obtained results showed that the level of well-formedness of knowledge and ways of activities towards the surrounding world and the level of education on Mathematics that the primary school children showed in experimental groups are of a higher level compared to the level “higher than average” of the control group. The comparison of research results, shown by the experimental group “before” and “after” the formative work, indicate the positive influence of methodological means based on personality-oriented approach.
Irina N. Andreeva, Kseniya Yu. Badina, Svetlana A. Mukhina, Olga A. Makarova, Elena V. Maltseva and Marina A. Lavrentyeva, 2016. Fulfillment of the Principles of Personality-Oriented Education in the System of Natural Scientific and Mathematical Training in Primary School. The Social Sciences, 11: 1759-1768.