EDU 555

Assignment: Article Review

Cooperative Learning Structures Can Increase
Student Achievement
Prepared By :Nur Hafizah Begum binti Kamal
ID :2013255148
Class :ED 260 4B
Prepared for : Sir Mohamad Hisyam Ismail

Summary
Author: Jeanie M. Dotson
Source: Kagan Online Magazine, Winter 2011
Focus : Comparison Achievement Between
Students from Dunbar Middle school who were
introduced into Kagans Cooperative learning
and the other group with traditional learning.

What is Cooperative Learning?

Cooperative Learning defined as teaching strategy consist of small
teams which choose by different ability, culture, and
socioeconomics to improve better understanding of the subject.

(Anthony,2005)

Why it is important?

Promotes positive interdependence

Individual accountability
Equal participation
Social interaction
Interpersonal skills
Racial integration

Content/ summary

Point: Usage of cooperative learning as instructional

method and the achievement from it in nowadays
teaching process.
Explanation:
Different people have used cooperative learning
with a huge success (Clyde,n.d)
Opinion:
- Agree
- Enhance student thinking skill with different angle
- Example: Kindergarten students performance in
school medium

Conti
Point: Teacher who use cooperative learning have
been self taught and teacher get used with variety of
methods.
Explanation:
Teacher learns to understand student behavior and
attitude through cooperative learning( Dr.Panitz,n.d)
Opinion:
-Agree
-Knows how to tackle each student
-Good relationship

Conti.

Point:
Questioning on why the cooperative learning was not widely used
.
Explanation :
- Lack of experience
- Funding/ financial support
-Administrative methods
- Too many to cover and free social time (Shindler,2009)
Opinion
- Disagree
- Teachers responsibility
-Timid observant
- Not used for teaching gimmick only
- Teachers job to secure the student future

Responses

Strongly agree with the article because;

-Group learning process is more

effective
-Student actively participate
(hands on)
-Same age tutor is more better.
-Enhance critical thinking
-Enhance self esteem
-Promote dual communication

Critiques

Weakness
-Does not listed how to apply in Science classroom
specifically
-Additional Article by Clyde (n.d) listed several
steps
- Tell how was the first class conducted
- Student impression on cooperative learning
- No specific data for each students

Conclusion
Impression towards the author
How to incorporated
- Teacher syllabus diversified
- A new subject formed
- More research on teacher perception and
how they apply it and how they should
start
- This method to be fixed in Malaysian
Education System
- Try to experiment