Evaluation of a Flipped Classroom Model

The flipped teaching approach has gradually gained its popularity and importance in higher education which has long been stressed to focus more on student-centered teaching, active and personalized learning. However, there is still a limited number of studies concerning the use of flipped classroom in higher education in general and the effectiveness of flipped classroom model in such environment in particular. This research aims at figuring out the impacts of flipped classroom model on students’ learning autonomy, students’ confidence and participation during lectures, students’ collaboration skills, and their general academic performance in a grammar course. The results reveal that the application of flipped classroom has positively affected students’ learning attitude and significantly broadened their knowledge as well as improved their learning skills. Also, some problems in implementing flipped classroom model are identified and recommendations for educators and higher education institutions for successful implementation of the flipped learning approach are made.