期刊名称：International Journal of Environmental and Science Education
电子版ISSN：1306-3065
出版年度：2011
卷号：6
期号：4
页码：393-414
出版社：IJESE
摘要：In Brunei, more girls are enrolled at the institutions of higher education than boys. The aim of this study was to evaluate if a constructivist teaching approach, enriched with interactive whiteboard technology could empower males to minimize gender differences in achieve-ment in Chemistry. Two groups of students were taught for six weeks: one group using the constructivist teaching approach enriched with interactive whiteboard technology and the other group using a traditional teaching approach. The results of the study demonstrated sta-tistically significant gender differences in pre-test mean achievement scores of both the groups. There were statistically significant gender differences in post-test mean achieve-ment scores for group taught traditionally, however, mean achievement scores of male and female students taught using constructivist approach were statistically non-significantly dif-ferent. It is believed that this technique has potential to minimize gender difference in che-mistry achievement. Implications of this research in Bruneian context are discussed and fu-ture research in this area is recommended.
