The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the cooperative learning activity (CLA) program for children. This CLA program for children were developed by Lee Yeun-Ok for the purpose of the encouragement the children's positive personality ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the cooperative learning activity (CLA) program for children. This CLA program for children were developed by Lee Yeun-Ok for the purpose of the encouragement the children's positive personality traits.
The subjects of the experimental group were 28 children and the subjects of the control group were 24 children. CLA program was carried out as a whole class activity for one mixed age (3, 4, 5 year old) preschool class for 20 weeks as a experimental group.
In this study, four hypothesis were proposed as follows.
hypothesis 1 : CLA program group will show higher popularity scores than control group.
hypothesis 2 : CLA program group will show higher degree of the number of friend than control group.
hypothesis 3 : CLA program group will show higher prosocial behavior scores than control group.
hypothesis 4 : CLA program group will show higher school adjustment scores than control group.
The outcome of this study were as follows :
1) The hypothesis 1 was rejected.
2) The hypotheses 2, 3, 4 were accepted.
These outcome of this study suggest that the CLA Program was effective for the developing the children's positive personaliting traits.