The Impact of Peer Instruction on Students’ Achievement in Mathematics Analysis

In this research, we investigated the effect of peer instruction method on the first course mathematics education students’ academic achievement and the attitudes of students by using peer instruction method. The implementation was carried out seven weeks with 60 participants in an introduction to mathematics analysis lesson in Suleyman Demirel University in Kazakhstan. Two first course groups were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. The final results were obtained to measure students’ academic achievement and questionnaires used to indicate attitudes towards peer instruction. Data were analyzed, using analysis of t-test (p = 0.029) with an alpha significance level of 0.05. The results of final questions indicated, peer instruction has a significant positive effect on students’ achievement in the introduction to mathematics analysis course and the results of questionnaires demonstrated peer instruction (PI) has a positive impact on peers’ understanding by making learning interesting and interactive, and it also creates conducive atmosphere in the class.