Studying the Effects of Cooperation Teaching Methods on the Academic Achievement of the Courses of Geography, History and Civic among Fifth Grade Students in Gorgan

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Ozra Khazaei ¹ (MA in Educational Planning, Islamic Azad University, Azad Shahr Branch, Azad Shahr, Iran)
Aliasghar Bayani ² (Assistant Professor. Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Azad Shahr Branch, Azad Shahr, Iran)
Hossein Fakouri Hajiyar ³ (Assistant Professor. Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Azad Shahr Branch, Azad Shahr, Iran)

Received: 2012-12-07 Accepted : 2013-06-11 Published : 2013-08-23

Keywords: Educational Psychology, academic achievement, Cooperative learning,

Abstract :

The present study was to determine the influence of teaching on cooperative learning in subjects such as geography, history and civic-knowledge the metod of research was quasi-experimental. It’s kind of pretest and post-test. The target population included all primary boy student in grade five, in Gorgan (90-91). Sample size was forty, divided in two groups: 1. Experimental group, 2. Control group.in the experimental group cooperative learning method was used. Instrument was researcher-made academic achievement tests. All the tests were consistent in terms of validity and reability coefficient (0/86, 0/79). To analyzing data, it was used from covariance analysis (ANCOVA). The results have shown that cooperative learning improved academic achievement in as geography, history and civic-knowledge.