Comparing the Effect of Lecture and Jigsaw Teaching Strategies on Attitude and Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Mixed-methods Approach

ABSTRACT

This study sought to compare the effect of lecture and Jigsaw teaching strategies attitude and Environmentally Responsible Behavior among the tourism resorts staff members of Abr, Shahrud, Iran. The jigsaw technique, which focuses on development of peer cooperation and teamwork through division of tasks among students, takes place through each student’s assuming responsibility. In this article, the quantitative analyses, a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design with control group was adopted. Sixty rural resorts staff members of Abr were selected through convenient sampling. The results indicated that, in comparison with the lecture teaching strategy, The Jigsaw teaching strategy significantly enhanced the staff’s attitude and Environmentally Responsible Behavior. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in terms of attitude and Environmentally Responsible Behavior before the interventions, but after the interventions, the mean scores of attitude and Environmentally Responsible Behavior were significantly different in Jigsaw group from that of the lecture group. Analyzing the data obtained in the qualitative phase (i.e. interviews) revealed that, after 18 months of environmental training, there were differences between the control and experimental groups in terms of attitude and Environmentally Responsible Behavior.

KEYWORDS:

• The jigsaw teaching
• the lecture teaching
• attitude
• environmentally responsible behavior
• tourism resorts

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