The Purpose of this study was to examine the effects of cooperative learning and traditional lecturing strategies on the cognitive and affective outcomes of college students The study selected 38 students as a experimental group and 62 students as a c...
The Purpose of this study was to examine the effects of cooperative learning and traditional lecturing strategies on the cognitive and affective outcomes of college students The study selected 38 students as a experimental group and 62 students as a comparative group. During a period of four weeks, the processor responsible for the Educational Psychology classes proceeded the experimental group in the cooperative learning strategy, while the comparative class was Proceeded only in the traditional lecturing strategy. The study employed a Pretest-posttest control group design. For the data analysis, t-test was utilized.
Results showed that the cooperative learning strategy was appeared to have significant positive effects both on cognitive and affective outcomes, while the traditional lecturing one was not. The results on the open questions that more than 80 percent of students participated in the experimental group showed positive attitudes towards the cooperative learning strategy supported the experimental results. The study suggested the cooperation skills would need to be trained and the cooperative learning strategy to be lasted three hours Per session.