Effect of Brain Based Instructional Strategies on Perception of Classroom Environment of Elementary School Students

Brain based instructional strategies is an educational approach based on the assumption that brain naturally learns best (Slavkin, 2004). Brain based education offers a biologically driven classroom structure that corresponds to the functions of the human brain at different developmental levels. The present study was done to study the effect of brain based instructional strategies on the perception of classroom environment of elementary school students. The study was experimental in nature with one group pre-test post-test experimental design. The sample consisted of 36 students of class VII. Modules based on Brain Based Instructional Strategies were developed by investigator and Classroom Environment Scale by Kaur and Sharma (2013) was used for data collection. The scores obtained in pre-test and post-test on perception of classroom environment were analysed by using paired sample t-test. The findings of the study revealed that there was statistically significant improvement in the perception of the classroom environment of the students taught through brain based instructional strategies.