The Investigation of the Relationship between Active Participation of Students and Their Academic Achievement in the Process of Teaching

Active participation of students in the course of teaching/learning process is one of the essential topics which have attracted many researchers, for the student's active participation causes the students to be mentally involved, thus increasing learning. In this paper, student and teacher talk was analyzed, using Flander's interaction analysis system. This was done for the purpose of determining the teacher and student talk and their participation. To carry out this study, sixty high school classes– half males and half females– of three different fields of study were chosen, based on the multi-stage random sampling. The classes were from five different parts or areas of the education organization of Tabriz. Ten coders collected the observational data. The frequency of ten factors was calculated, using Flander's interaction analysis. The results showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the average of active participation and the type of free /limited talk among male and female students. There was also no significant difference, given the student's academic field of study, but there was a positive relationship between the active participation and free/limited talk and student's academic achievement.