The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning Based on Grouping Strategy

• Main Authors: Po-Jen Chuang, 莊博仁
• Other Authors: Chu-Sing Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20216366842201950410

博士 === 國立中山大學 === 資訊工程學系研究所 === 101 === A team work begins with cooperative learning, the responsibility of associators, abilities of individuals, and team progress are rewarded for helping and sharing to each other. Grouping takes the first step of cooperation. For better cooperation, we propose a grouping strategy to enhance the learning and testing results of students based on the relationship of social network. The proposed method stems from the need of interactivity and the desire of cooperation in cooperative learning. Basing on the society relationships and the learning results of students, our method provides members of the groups to learn from or mimic learners who have good relationships with them. As such, the learning achievement can be raised. Our experimental results show that the proposed method can provide a better learning result, especially when compared to grouping at random, because it enables low achievers to find more appropriate collaborators. More precisely, the experimental results show that the learning achievement of approximately 17.64\% of the students is increased. The average score is also increased. Cooperative learning are also influenced by the leader and the learning achievements. A good leader leads a better communication and shares the advisement among members. We have found the supports, including parents, teachers, and relationships, for a leader leading the group to a higher achievement. The specific factors are also discussed, that the parents'' support is the biggest among the others. In another factor, achievement trend, the item difficulty of a question can affect the difference of achievement trend. We provide a method, difference from item response theory, can sensibly calculate the difficulty of item-self by four factors, recognition, formula, calculation, and unit transformation. This method takes mathematics as instance and can be applied to question items in which is not tested before.