What is all this fuss about teaching models?

The purpose of present research was to investigate the differences in education, nurturing and storage time of the memory contents in the two methods of traditional teaching and combined model.The research procedure was quasi-experimental design. The studied community was included all male students in Marand city. All of them were the 5th grade students who were enrolled in the 2009-2010 academic year. The sample group was consisted of 36 male students that were selected via disposal sampling and allocated into experimental and control groups. Measurement tools was the researcher-made questionnaire. Result analysis of covariance and effect size revealed that there was no significant difference between the traditional teaching and combination models in terms of education, but there was a significant difference between traditional teaching and combination models in terms of nurturing and storage time of the memory contents.