The Effects of Cooperative Learning on Junior High School Students’ Learning Motivation and Academic Performance in Physics Chemistry Study Class

• Main Authors: WANG,HUI-MING, 王慧明
• Other Authors: 林啟超
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83904121606310684928

碩士 === 東海大學 === 教育研究所在職專班 === 104 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the learning motivation and the academic performance on junior high students who were taught using cooperative learning. There was a total of 55 eighth-grade students from a junior high school in the coastal area of Taichung. Students in the experimental group were taught using cooperative learning, two periods a week for eight weeks, while the control group were taught in traditional, whole-class methods. The research adopted unequal groups design with the pretest, post-test, and follow-up test. The instruments used in this study included the Scale of Physics Chemistry Learning Motivation and Physics Chemistry Learning Achievement Test. And the research analyses adopted one-way ANCOVA and used lesson unit-activity check lists and all lesson feedback survey from the experimental group students’ responses and opinions. The results were as follows: 1. The experimental group had significant differences on the learning physics chemistry motivation of self-efficacy, active learning strategy, science learning value and learning environment stimulation than the control group on post-test of these variables. 2. There were no significant differences on the post-test between the experimental group and the control group on the academic performance in Physics Chemistry Study Class . 3. The experimental group had significant differences on the learning physics chemistry motivation of self-efficacy, active learning strategy and learning environment stimulation than the control group on the follow-up test of these variables. 4. There were no significant differences on follow-up test between the experimental group and the control group on the academic performance in Physics Chemistry Study Class. 5. Students had a positive recognition to the Cooperative Learning in enhancing learning motivation in science learning. The researcher would offer some suggestions from findings as references for Physics Chemistry class teachers, educational administrative institution, further studies.