The Influence of Cooperative Learning on Malaysian Junior High School Student's Learning Effectiveness

• Main Authors: Chong,Lai-Fen, 張來芬
• Other Authors: 秦爾聰
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6ddxv6

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 科學教育研究所 === 106 === This study applies the cooperative learning method - The Student's Team Achievement Division (STAD) proposed by R. E. Salvin in 1978, as the teaching strategy integrated into classroom instruction, and to investigate the effectiveness of cooperative learning for Malaysian junior high school students in their mathematics learning. The research subjects were 151 ninth graders from a Chinese independent high school in Malaysia, and they were divided into an experimental group (with cooperative learning) and a control group (with traditional expository teaching) having the same teaching goals and number of teaching sections and units according to the textbooks of Dong Zong. The study was conducted for six months and the data collection and analysis was focused on the students’ performance of their worksheets and exam results. By means of a questionnaires developed by the experimental group as a collaborative learning experience for students and serves as a tool for collecting quantitative data. The results of the research are then analysed with descriptive statistics. According to the data analysis results, the results obtained in this study are as follows: 1. There is significant difference between the learning performance of students who have received cooperative learning and those who do not. 2. After receiving cooperative learning, students’ performance in learning achievement has achieved significant differences. 3. Before and after receiving cooperative learning, students' grouping cooperation experience has achieved significantly higher correlation. 4. Before and after receiving cooperative learning, students' learning achievement and students' group cooperative learning experience have reached significantly higher correlations.