The Attitude of Students towards Cooperative Learning in Secondary Schools of Gulelle Sub-city.
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2019-08
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of the study was to assess the attitude of students towards to cooperative learning in secondary schools of (Eintoto-Amba, Kechene-Debre-Selam, Dil-Ber, and Miref) in Gulelle Sub-city, Addis Ababa City administration. The study employed a descriptive survey design and to determine the views of intermediate level students towards cooperative learning strategies. Mixed method was employed, where both selected as well as qualitative data were combined and analyzed. The unit of analysis for this study was Gulelle Sub-city as a sample schools which has four secondary schools, among which Entoto Amba, Kechene Debre Selam, Del Ber and Miraf secondary schools were sampled, while respondents were randomly selected from these secondary schools. All the closed-ended questions of the questionnaire were quantitatively described by using Statistical Package for Social Science SPSS version 21 (Actual counts, relative frequency distribution, percentages and mean scores) on the basis of response of the respondents together with descriptive statement. Data were presented in the form of mean and ± standard deviation. All inferential statistics were performed at 95% confidence level. It also used both primary and secondary data for viability-if the study which is presented using descriptive and inferential statistics MANOVA. In general, the finding of the study reveal that students have benefited much from cooperative learning method because it allows them to actively participate in their group, it helps students to improve in their academic classes, archiving better results and bring about disciplined behavior in their respective classes. However, the overall result of the study indicated that a significant proportion of the respondents reasonably benefited from the ongoing cooperative learning approaches. Conversely, the other side of the study participants confirmed that the academic results were dropped and the implication has remained doubtful whether cooperative leaning effective to students learning or not. In line with this, the educational and training policy, continuous and intensive short-term and long-term training should be offered to teacher so as to enhance their awareness and gradually shift their tendency from teacher dominated teaching-learning approach to learner focused instructional approach as cooperative learning. A further study on this point is highly recommendable.
Key Words: Cooperative Learning, Secondary Schools, Attitude, Benefits
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Cooperative Learning, Secondary Schools, Attitude, Benefits