Exploring the Effect of Cooperative Learning on Learning Performance – under the Views of Personality Traits and Learning Styles

碩士 === 萬能科技大學 === 資訊管理研究所在職專班 === 104 === In recent years, Educational environment of Taiwan changed a lot. In modern society, previous teaching materials and methods help students limitedly.Among innovative teaching methods, cooperative learning of the most widely adopted by our teachers. Studebt T...

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Main Authors: CHEN,CHUAN KAI, 陳專凱
Other Authors: CHEN, MEI-CHUN
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57s9n7
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Summary:碩士 === 萬能科技大學 === 資訊管理研究所在職專班 === 104 === In recent years, Educational environment of Taiwan changed a lot. In modern society, previous teaching materials and methods help students limitedly.Among innovative teaching methods, cooperative learning of the most widely adopted by our teachers. Studebt Teams-Achievement Division(STAD) is applied up mostly among all cooperative learning strategies. But research about STAD affecting different personality traits or learning styles is rare. This research uses quasi-experimental method to probe the learning achievement between different personality traits or learning styles under STAD. The objects of this research are 4 seventh grade classes of junior high school students in Taoyuan City in the academic year of 2015. There are both 2 classes ( 59 students ) in control group or experiment group. They were executed lecture teaching method or STAD. The performance of 2 sectional examination is taken as learning achievement. The research last for 13 weeks. Students were divided by big five personality traits or by learning styles. Then the learning achievement was tested with two-sample T-test. As a result, the learning achievement of agreeableness personality trait, accommodator learning style and converger learning style under is poorer and significantly different. The learning achievement of conscientiousness personality trait under lecture teaching method and STAD is better but not significantly different. According to the result of this research, a teacher should able to use multivariate teaching method and instructional media; and adjust teaching method after characteristic of studnets was discovered. To improve the learning achievement, educational administrative agency could create individualized education environment, update instructional media equipment in teaching site. For junior high school teachers this research provide some suggestions: there is suitable or improper teaching strategy for student of different character. This research also rediscover the value of STAD. In the future, the learning achievement of different personality traits or learning styles under other cooperative learning could be probed to find appropriate teaching strategies. Even cooperative learning strategy with traditional instructional media is worth to explore.