comparative study about effectiveness of two different teaching methods of traditional and integrated of physical education on learning biology and development of social skills of male junior high students

the major aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two teachingmethods of traditional (common) and integrated for physical education on learningbiology and developing social skills in male junior students. this study was semiexperimentalwhich was conducted in islamshahr city for 12 weeks. the statisticalpopulation consisted of 79 volunteer junior students who studied the second gradeand 52 students were selected by an iq test and were assigned to two groups oftraditional (n=26) and integrated (n=26) purposively. during these three months,physical education and biology were taught by the common method (separately)for the traditional group while biology was integrated with physical education andtaught for the integrated group. the data were analyzed using wilcoxon test, umann whitney test and t test. the results revealed a significant difference inlearning biology between traditional and integrated groups at α