Effectiveness of Geogebra on Students’ Achievement in Geometry

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of GeoGebra software on students’ achievement in triangle and parallelogram of geometry at grade IX. A pre-test and post-test of quasi-experimental research design was used to compare the achievement of two groups i.e. experimental and control. The researcher chooses 30 students of Shree Mahadev Secondary School, Belkotghadi-7, as an experimental group and 32 students of Shree Shila Devi Secondary School, Belkotghadi-6 as a control group. After the completion of the triangle and parallelogram, researcher collected data from mathematics achievement test and a set of opinionnare related to five point Likert scale. The mathematics achievement test was used for the first objective: comparing the achievement of the students taught by using GeoGebra and traditional method in triangle and parallelogram and opinionnare was used for the second objective: analyzing the students’ perception on Geogebra software. The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the average achievement score of experimental and control groups on post-test. The finding of this study illustrated that the students in the experimental group performed better when using GeoGebra than the control group with the traditional teaching method. Additionally, a set of opinionnare related to Likert scale was used to explore the student’s perception on GeoGebra software. This opinionnare was administered to only experimental group. The result of opinionnare showed that, students gave positive feedback or perception about GeoGebra software in learning triangle and parallelogram at geometry.