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| Published: June 25, 2016
Understanding Jigsaw Cooperative Learning: Influence on Scholastic Achievement and Learning Experiences of Students in Mathematics Education
ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Psychology, Osmania University, Hyderabad Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.071/20160303
DOI: 10.25215/0303.071
ABSTRACT
Mathematics is a compulsory subject at school level. The performance of students in mathematics is not satisfactory at secondary school level. Some of the factors that are attributed to the unsatisfactory performance include: anxiety and fear towards the subject by students, ineffective instructional methods, class room climate and learning environment which are not supportive for students’ participation. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of cooperative learning strategy in mathematics on students’ performance from positive psychology perspective. In addition to performance this study also sought to find out students perception towards cooperative learning strategy. The sample of the study consisted of 60 students divided in to two groups of 30.In the experimental group cooperative learning strategy was employed while in the controlled group traditional instructional method was used. Scholastic achievement test and Questionnaire on cooperative learning was used to collect the data. Data was analysed by using statistical techniques including “t” test. The study supports the effectiveness of cooperative learning strategy in mathematics education.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016 I V Rao
Received: April 10, 2016; Revision Received: May 12, 2016; Accepted: June 25, 2016
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.071/20160303
10.25215/0303.071
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 3, April-June, 2016