The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning Strategy in Improving the Level of Academic Achievement

Abstract

Many scientific research has proven the importance of student participation in the educational process and a learner can’t achieve his targets away from the contributions of the teacher. This study is in the context of studies that consider the relationship between teacher and learner and it aims to investigate the effectiveness of cooperative learning in raising academic achievement for students in the fifth year of primary schooling. In order to achieve this aim, the researchers decided that the research should include three main topics: The first is a theoretical study that includes the theoretical context for the emergence of the concept of cooperative learning and the academic achievement. The second subject is systematic and it includes the problem of the study, its hypotheses and definition of the main concepts in the research. And the third is field research, where the procedures applied in field work are explained. In line with these practices, researchers have arrived at the end of the study and have interpreted it. The researchers used an experimental group consisting of 24 students and a control group consisting of 24 students in the fifth year of primary school in the state of Djelfa. The cooperative learning strategy was applied to the experimental group after confirming the similarities between the experimental samples in terms of achievement level, IQ scores, their cultural and economic levels. And the post-measurement has been based on the results of student academic achievement in end of second semester. The results of the study showed that there were differences between the experimental group and the control group in the academic achievement in favor of the experimental sample.