The Relationship between Students with Good Grades and Students with Poorer Grades in the Junior High School Classroom

Abstract

Teaching guidelines currently require that teachers should not only encourage students to participate voluntarily and purposefully in observations and experiments but should also pay attention to the individual learning needs of students. In order to translate these guidelines into practice, it is essential to promote free communication among students. The present study investigated how free interaction among students can affect their grades. At the same time, it aimed to identify whether providing students with an opportunity to communicate and learn freely from each other, regardless of their grades, can help teachers recognize and understand the individual needs of students. The results obtained from the present study indicate that students with good grades not only helped students with poorer grades in the learning process but also benefited from the experience of helping others, enabling them to enhance their scientific thinking skills.