The Use of Moral-based Cooperative Learning to Enhance Compassion, Responsibility and Honesty among Elementary School Students

• Main Authors: Chu-jiun Hsu, 許筑鈞
• Other Authors: Zuway-R, Hong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76517374594926058266

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 教育研究所 === 98 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of using moral-based cooperative learning on enhancing compassion, responsibility and honesty among elementary school students. A nonequivalent pretest-posttest design is conducted on this study. The experimental group students receive 11-week of “Moral-based Cooperative Learning”; On the other hand, control group students receive traditional teaching method. During the course, all participants response investigator-developed instrument “Elementary School Students Moral Behavior Scale” . In addition, observation, daily student behavior records and follow-up individual interview are conducted to 6 target students with the high, moderate, and the low scores of moral behavior in the pre-test. Correlation, t-test, ANOVA and ANCOVA are conducted for comparing the similarity and differences between two groups. A theme content analysis is conducted to analyze the qualitative data. The major findings are as following: 1. After the use of “Moral-based Cooperative Learning ”,The experimental group students’ moral behaviors, compassion and honesty are significantly higher than the control group students’. 2. The experimental group students make more significant improvement of their moral behaviors on “compassion”and “honesty” than “responsibility”. 3. The low score group students make more significant progress of their moral behaviors than the high and moderate score group students. 4. There is no significant difference on moral behaviors among students with different gender, birth order, social-economic status or family structure. 5. There is significant positive correlation among compassion, responsibility and honesty of experimental group students. According to those significant findings, educational recommendation and suggestions provide toward teachers and researchers be discussed .