The effect of cooperative learning on students' social skills academic achievement

Abstract

The effective demonstration of social skills of classroom is essential to successfully develop professional and personal relationships. This study compared the effect of Cooperative and Individual learning in academic achievement of Social Skills such as cooperation, responsibility, asking question. The main goal of this study is evaluation and comparison that two methods, research method of this study is Quasi-Experimental. A 40 student group of high school is chosen. They were divided into two groups, in cooperative and individual, and were taught some social skills for duration of two months. The study was conducted in a public school using a pre-test / post-test design. The results of the study have shown that cooperative taught group did better in academic achievement of social skills than individual group.