Comparative Study about Effectiveness of two Different Teaching Methods of Traditional and Integrated of Physical Education on Learning Biology and Development of Social Skills of Male Junior High Students

The major aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two teaching methods of traditional (common) and integrated for physical education on learning biology and developing social skills in male junior students. This study was semiexperimental which was conducted in Islamshahr city for 12 weeks. The statistical population consisted of 79 volunteer junior students who studied the second grade and 52 students were selected by an IQ test and were assigned to two groups of traditional (n=26) and integrated (n=26) purposively. During these three months, physical education and biology were taught by the common method (separately) for the traditional group while biology was integrated with physical education and taught for the integrated group. The data were analyzed using Wilcoxon test, U Mann Whitney test and t test. The results revealed a significant difference in learning biology between traditional and integrated groups at α<0.05. The t test results revealed a significant difference in the mean scores of impulsive behaviors between traditional and integrated groups at α<0.01, that is, the mean scores significantly decreased in the integrated method compared to the traditional method. Also, there was a significant difference in the mean scores of suitable social behaviors of subjects between integrated and traditional groups (α<0.001). In other words, mean scores of the students in the integrated group significantly increased compared to the traditional group.