The Effect of Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) Based Instruction on Students’ Competency Levels of Research Techniques

Abstract

Research has shown that classroom assessment techniques (CATs) provide important benefits to students and instructors in learning and teaching processes. Hence, this study examines the contributions of these techniques in gaining competency in the context of a research techniques course. The obtained results reveal that students’ competency levels of research techniques in the experiment group (instructed through CATs) are significantly higher than those of the students in the control group (instructed without these techniques). Opinions of the students in the experiment group on whether or not the use the related techniques are positive. This finding of the study is also considered to be important in that it is in compliance with the competency levels of research techniques of the students in the experiment group at the end the teaching process.