A Flipped Classroom Approach as an Educational Tool for Economics Instruction

Abstract

The traditional classroom strategy has evolved as a technological advancement that has been introduced into the academic learning environment nowadays. Through different improvement with the classroom arrangement and among other advances, the traditional classroom has shifted into flipped classrooms and geared its focus toward the students themselves in order to facilitate independent learning skills. To look into the effect of using flipped classroom model in teaching the Economics subject among undergraduate students, this paper sought to investigate this issue in a state university situated in the Philippines.  It has been observed and the results showed that proves that flipped classroom model improved the performance of students in learning Economics. Also, it was revealed in the study that there is a significant different between the performance of the students without or with flipped classroom strategy. Therefore, such a methodology of learning can be further designed as an educational tool for a better delivery of the instruction in Economics.