Implementation of Cooperative Learning in Science : A Developmental-cum-Experimental Study

Abstract EN

This research paper is designed to set forth ideas on how to implement cooperative learning and examine its effect on social and cooperative skills while imparting science education at the Secondary Level.

The strategy used is Jigsaw Technique making heterogeneous groups based on intelligence and gender.

Instructional material and observation schedule were constructed by researchers.

The cooperative skills of the students were found improving during the experimental period, and they developed positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction skills, and feeling of individual accountability, as compared by Mann Whitney U test.

The students developed the feeling of working in a group in the classroom of science, and it also improved performance, as the discussion always leads to a considerable degree of clarity of concepts.