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Religious Education Research Paper

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Abstract
This research will be conducted to investigate the use of Guided Discovery to enhance student’s academic performance in Religious Education at the grade four level grade of a Primary School in the Parish of Hanover.
The study will be providing information on use Guided Discovery to teach Religious Education through the employment of quantitative and qualitative methodology. Questionnaires and interviews will be designed around the Religious Education curriculum and will be distributed to teacher and students will be given a pre and post test as the sole data collection instrument, used to identify student’s knowledge of Religious Education.

General description of topic Area The researcher carried out a research in the parish of Hanover. The school is located in a small community in Hanover called Kendal. The school does not operate on a shift system however school commences 8:30 am and closes at 3 pm. There are six classes Grades 1 – 6 with a trained teacher assigned to each class, one Principal and one Vice Principal.
Some teachers on staff are trained at the Diploma in Education level and some are trained at the Bachelor’s of Education level, those teachers who are …show more content…

Religious Education also helps to develop children morally. The researcher is a teacher at a Primary school in a small farming community in Hanover who realizes that the children in grade four at this particular school are not performing well academically in Religious Education based on the results of their grades in the end of term and end of year exam. The researcher also discovers that the students are at times restless when it comes to Religious Education session they appeared bored, in Religious Education class most of the students find other things to do than participating in class to gain an understanding of the

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