Honors Projects
Abstract
Cooperative learning groups help students develop twenty-first century skills. Teachers may choose to constantly change the memberships of the cooperative learning groups so that students rarely work with the same people or teachers may choose to use a home group structure in that students always work with the same people. In this action research with two fifth grade math and science classes, it was found that most students enjoyed working with short-term groups and long-lasting home groups, but there was a large minority of students who did not enjoy working with their home groups following the three-month time period that the home groups were in existence. Nevertheless, most of the students in the groups that worked as cooperative learning groups enjoyed working in their groups; whereas, more of the students in groups that did not work as cooperative learning groups did not enjoy working as much in their groups. In addition, in both the group structures, the majority of students were comfortable asking their group members questions and helped their group members with questions they had.
Department
Education
Major
Middle Childhood Education
First Advisor
Dr. Debra Gallagher
First Advisor Department
Education
Second Advisor
Paul Wesley Alday
Second Advisor Department
Communication
Publication Date
Spring 4-14-2017
Repository Citation
Miller, Sarah, "Group Encouragement: Action Research on Cooperative Learning" (2017). Honors Projects. 256.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/256