The Effect of Peer Teaching Technique on 6th Grade Students' Achievement Levels towards the Systems Unit in Our Body

The aim of this research is to teach peer tutoring to 6th grade students. Research pre-test - post-test Designed in semi-experimental model with control group. According to the research, a total of 46 students (Female: 25, Male: 21) participated in 6 / A and 6 / B classes in a private secondary school in the Kecioren district of Ankara province. One of the classes was the application group (6 / A, N: 24) and the other was the control group (6 / A, N: 22). The students in the application group were selected as "Teacher Peer". The process of cultivating peers was conducted before the research of the 6 determined students and at 5 sessions at the forty minutes. In the training program of the educating peers, the 8 week practice was done with peer teaching technique in the context of "Systems in our Body". In this process, control also has traditional teaching techniques. The research data has been reached by Inel (2009) in the "Academic Achievement Test of Systems Unit in Our Body" series. As a result of the study, it was revealed that peer education is more effective on the academic achievement levels of the science students in the research than the traditional teaching.