COOPERATIVE LEARNING (TUGAS MENJELANG UAS)

Cooperative Learning

Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement. Students work through the assignment until all group members successfully understand and complete it.
Cooperative efforts result in participants striving for mutual benefit so that all group members:
• gain from each other's efforts. (Your success benefits me and my success benefits you.)
• recognize that all group members share a common fate. (We all sink or swim together here.)
• know that one's performance is mutually caused by oneself and one's team members. (We can not do it without you.)
• feel proud and jointly celebrate when a group member is recognized for achievement. (We all congratulate you on your accomplishment!).
Research has shown that cooperative learning techniques:
• promote student learning and academic achievement
• increase student retention
• enhance student satisfaction with their learning experience
• help students develop skills in oral communication
• develop students' social skills
• promote student self-esteem
• help to promote positive race relations

from http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm

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WHAT I CAN REFLECT ABOUT PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS, IF THE STUDENTS IS CONFRONTED WITH THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

Follow me, if student will be be given mathematics exercise shaped multiple choise will makes them don't think.Why? Because the true answer have of the available. The student just choice one of the answers. And probability to right is 25 % if available 4 alternative answer.

Student only will guess answer, without try to find appropriate answer, while diligent student of course try to find true answer.

Exercise only shaped multiple choice can not thoroughly to represent student ability. For example, teacher gives test shaped 10 number multiple choice exercises in the student. Student lazy thinks more opting gambling in answer the questions. Luck, the answer right all. While clever student obvious less careful in put answer in answer paper so that answer should correct be wrong flutter wrong admission filling in sheet answer. Really found factor “X” very influential and this matter not fair, I think. Opportunity to be able to plagiarism be easier moment exercise that given is multiple choice.

This differ from exercise form essay, unfortunately, inclined unwelcome a large part student. While, if we see the essence farther, exercise use essay inclined can make student more creative. they are more conditioned for free develop the idea self.

Actually, exercise with multiple choice type give easy of evaluation because teacher can correcting the answer of exercise the student faster.

Multiple choice led to instant culture. Only consider important result, not process. Whereas in mathematics subject that more important is process to produce something.

Nur Hera Utami

P-Matematika Regular 2007

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