Students’ Success Rate Enhancement in an Electrical Machines Subject Through a Hybrid Flipped Classroom–Socratic Method

In this paper, a hybrid flipped classroom–Socratic method (HFC-SBM) is proposed as an active and effective method of teaching and learning to enhance the success rate in the subject of electrical machines. The proposed method was applied in the third year of a Bachelor of Engineering Technology program. Most students were new to the subject of electrical machines and did not have any prior knowledge of the principle of energy conversion in electrical machines. The traditional method (TRM), the flipped classroom method (FCM), and the Socratic-based method (SBM) were applied and then compared with the proposed HFC-SBM. The students were assessed each time they completed a specific teaching and learning method. The assessment results revealed that the proposed HFC-SBM improved the students’ success rate tremendously by 300%, 160%, and 80% when compared to the TRM, FCM, and SBM, respectively. A single-factor Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test has been carried out on the statistical data to assess the significance of the different teaching and learning methods on the students’ success rate.