Practising summarizing within cooperative groups - experimental study
Practising summarizing within cooperative groups - experimental study

Summary/Abstract: This study presents the data of an extensive experimental research that aimed to measure the experimental conditions of the efficiency of Learning together model regarding the students’ ability to summarize ideas in third and fourth grades. We included 236 students in the study. They were selected from four schools from Oradea to ensure a similar level of training and a common area of origin. The experiment lasted 3 months and included implementing cooperative group activities to the experimental classes: 1 hour per week in each of the two disciplines: Romanian and Mathematics. For the control classes the teaching process carried on in a normal way without our intervention. The lessons developed were videotaped and data analysis was done using Cooperative Learning Scale developed in 1997 by B. Kenter, K. Post, S. Veenman and adapted by us with permission.The results gained proved that the model Learning together could lead to an increase in the frequency of cooperative learning behavior, but it is not powerful enough to be able to perpetuate it in time. Although the post-test at the experimental third grades marked an increase in the scores, the average values were low both in the third and fourth grades. The decreased results from the re-test at the third level classes demonstrated that the skill of summarizing ideas of others required a more consistent exercise.

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