Studying the Effects of Cooperative Learning and Social Skills on the Students’ Academic Achievement (Case Study: 6th Grade Elementary School Students in Marvdasht)
Keywords:
Cooperative Learning, Academic Achievement, Social Skills, Learning Together Method, Quasi-Experimental Study, Traditional Teaching MethodAbstract
This paper aims at studying the effects of cooperative learning and social skills on the students’
academic achievement, which, today, most experts in education have paid attention to it. This
paper designed a quasi-experimental research by which we may study the effects of cooperative
learning through learning together on the students’ academic achievement. The population
consists of 70 elementary students, 6th grade, in Marvdasht, who were selected using random
sampling method. To collect data, we used development and social skills test (designed by the
researchers) and the academic achievement test (designed by the teacher). The population
divided into two groups: sample and control. Cooperative learning method was applied to the
samples, and the control group were taught traditionally. The data was analyzed using variance
analysis method and MATLAB 2013 software. The results showed that the cooperative learning
method was more effective on learning than the traditional method on the students’ academic
achievement.
