Empirical Action Research on Improving Student’s Classroom Participation: The Case of Dilla University Computer Engineering Students

Derara Duba Rufo ()
Additional contact information
Derara Duba Rufo: Dilla University

Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2024, vol. 37, issue 2, No 1, 127-138

Abstract: Abstract Learning is a means by which people develop and acquire knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes. It creates the foundation for development and is critical in improving socio-cultural, economic, technological, political, and environmental progress. Active classroom participation for students is very important to achieve the learning goals (for a better understanding of the students). At different times our country Ethiopia adopts a variety of strategies to promote sustainable development, one of which is education policy. However, our educational system has numerous challenges. Our students, for example, do not regard learning as an essential tool that imparts knowledge to improve one’s life, but rather as a means of fulfilling some criteria and obtaining credentials. In other words, they are not actively engaged in the classroom. This study uses experimental action research to answer how to promote classroom involvement among Dilla University computer engineering students. As a result, this experimental action research found that before taking action, classroom participation was extremely low, with only 14.65% of students participating in the total number of students presented in the class per day; however, after developing the action strategies and taking the action classroom participation was significantly increased, with 56.85% of students participating in the total number of students in the classroom. Finally, it is recommendable that by implementing the action strategies taken in this study, it is possible to improve University students’ classroom participation.

Keywords: Classroom participation; Student engagement; Active learning; Action research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11213-023-09645-z Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:syspar:v:37:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1007_s11213-023-09645-z

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/journal/11213

DOI: 10.1007/s11213-023-09645-z

Access Statistics for this article

Systemic Practice and Action Research is currently edited by Robert Flood

More articles in Systemic Practice and Action Research from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().