The Effectiveness Of Flipped Classroom Teaching Based On The Cognitive Load On High-Level Thinking Skills Of Farhangian University Students

The development of learning skills and high-level thinking in education is one of the basic requirements of today's scientific society. Therefore, this research was conducted to determine the effectiveness of flipped classroom teaching based on The cognitive load on high-level thinking skills of female students of Farhangian University.

This research was a clinical and semi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population included all undergraduate female students in the field of elementary education at Farhangian University of Chabahar in the first semester of the academic year 2023-2024, who had taken the research and professional development course. The number of students was 60, who were placed in the test group and control group (30 people in each group) by complete census method and random allocation by lottery. The data were collected using the high-level thinking skills questionnaire of Maharhari (2017). Teaching the course of research and professional development using the method of flipped classroom based on cognitive load In the experimental group, it was done in 12 sessions of 90 minutes, following the 7-step structure. Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance in Spss-23 software.

The findings showed that there is a significant difference between the average scores of high-level thinking skills of the two experimental and control groups in the pre-test and post-test stages (P<0.001). Based on the eta coefficients, 61% of the difference in the post-test scores of the exploration variable was related to the effect of the flipped classroom based on cognitive load.

Considering that the flipped classroom based on cognitive load can be effective in the development of students' thinking processes and strengthen their high-level thinking skills, this method is suggested as an effective teaching method in Universities.