The role of the active teaching method's festival on Instruction quality and student's achievement: A study about Khuzestan teacher's attitudes (2006-2007)

For conducting a survey about the attitudes of the teachers in the secondary education of Khuzestan about the effects of the festival of active teaching methods on Instruction quality and students’ academic achievement, 324 teachers completed a questionnraire with 42 items and 5 sub-scales. 37/8 (N=125) percent of them were all the teachers who had participated in annual festival of active teaching methods and the rest of them (N=199) had not participated and were selected by categorial random sampling method. The results indicate that: 1- There is not significant differences between the attitudes of the two groups about the festival's effects on the Instruction quality. 2- The teachers who participated in the festival, believed that the organizational supports are inefficient and this difference between two groups is significant. 3- There is no significant difference between the students’ academic achievement in the two groups of research sample. 4- There are significant and positive correlations between variables such as teachers’ skills, teachers’ commitment and students’ academic achievements. 5- Only the attitudes of teachers about organizational supports can predict the students’ academic achievement (b=. 155, p>.01).