Enhancing Student Participation in the Class in the Case of Third-Year Biotechnology Students at Bule Hora University

Mekdses Tadesse; Dagm Alemayehu

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Enhancing Student Participation in the Class in the Case of Third-Year Biotechnology Students at Bule Hora University

Mekdses Tadesse, Dagm Alemayehu

Published in Science Journal of Education (Volume 11, Issue 4)

Received: 17 June 2023 Accepted: 6 July 2023 Published: 21 July 2023

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify factors that influence students’ class participation and implementing an action plan as remedy to enhance students’ class participation. The study has employed various method of data collection such as questionnaire, checklists, interview, and focus-group discussion. Observation was employed to evaluate the level of students’ participation in the class. Based on the class observation or preliminary study in the classroom, most students were passive learner or non interactive class environment during the lesson intervention except very few students. After the data collection and data analysis, action implementation strategies were employed. The results shows that most students participate less due to its language difficulties, fear, shyness, lack of confidence, less class preparation, little or no teachers’ attention to what students do at the time of his/her lesson period. Hence, an action strategies like advice, changing the seating arrangement, reinforcement, and other strategies have been implemented. Accordingly, the outcome reveals that most of the students have actively participated during the observation day and after the action research intervention period. Therefore, the action research indicates that the intervention plan utilized has contributed for tremendous change in student’s class participation and establishment of positive reinforcement among students.

Published in	Science Journal of Education (Volume 11, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.sjedu.20231104.12
Page(s)	122-130
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Mekdses Tadesse

Department of Biotechnology, College of Natural and Computational Science, Bule Hora University, Oromia, Ethiopia
Dagm Alemayehu

Department of History, College of Social Science and Humanities, Bule Hora University, Oromia, Ethiopia

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