Teacher and Student Thoughts on Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning in Geography Teaching

Autor/inn/en	Kus, Metin; Filiz, Erkan; Altun, Sertel
Titel	Teacher and Student Thoughts on Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning in Geography Teaching
Quelle	In: Educational Research and Reviews, 9 (2014) 11, S.312-319 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1990-3839
Schlagwörter	Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Cooperative Learning; Geography Instruction; Lesson Plans; Qualitative Research; Academic Achievement; Focus Groups; Interviews; Questionnaires; High School Students; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Kooperatives Lernen; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Lesson planning; Unterrichtsplanung; Qualitative Forschung; Schulleistung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fragebogen; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	The aim of this study was to determine teachers' and students?' opinions on the effectiveness of cooperative learning. This study was conducted in Istanbul Lycee and it had a qualitative research design. The participant of the study assigned randomly among ninth grade students who were studying in Istanbul Lycee in the year of 2012 to 2013. Among 180 ninth grade students the researchers chose 15 male and 15 female students randomly (n = 30). Thus, the sample of this study consisted of 30 randomly assigned students. The researchers then chose 8 students randomly for the focus group interview and two geography teachers with 20 years of experience for the individual interview. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire form which consist of two open ended and ten semi-structured questions. Ten hour lesson plan developed by using cooperative learning method in the ninth grade geography lesson and applied two week period. In this study qualitative data analysis which consisted of classification of data, determining major themes used. The findings demonstrated that cooperative learning method was effective and increased student?s achievement. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Academic Journals. e-mail: err@academic.journals.org; e-mail: service@academicjournals.org; Web site: http://academicjournals.org/journal/ERR
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10