Effectiveness of concept attainment model over traditional method of teaching on achievement in biology

Teaching a subject like Biology needs special teaching methods. Inspite of the fact that Biology has a great importance in modern times, the subject of Biology is considered very difficult among students. It has been felt that inspite of strenuous efforts of Biology teacher, students fail to grasp the certain concepts of subject, which lead disinterest among students towards Biology. More ever students are often unable to apply their knowledge to advance studies. Therefore there is a need to study the effectiveness of the teaching methods in Biology. This study is based on facts collected from Maitri Vidya, Risali, Bhilai, Durg (C.G). The main aim of this study is to bring out the relative effectiveness of concept attainment model of teaching and conventional method of teaching on the achievement of students for acquisition of Biology concepts in class IX. Our study reveals that there is a significant difference between concept attainment model (CAM) method and traditional method (TM) on the achievement of students in understanding of Biology concepts. Of these methods concept attainment model is more effective than traditional method.