Collaborative Learning Practices by Gender: A Case of a Community School in Nepal

Kamal Prasad Acharya,Milan Acharya,Madhav Kumar Shrestha

doi:10.5539/ies.v13n4p75

Abstract

This study explores the situation of basic level community school boy and girl students’ science and health learning through collaborative culture. Fifth, sixth and seventh-grade students (both boys and girls) took part in this study. As per the aim of this study, a set of questionnaire was developed and administered to the sampled students. Two hundred and fifty-eight students were selected from the sampled school using the census sampling technique. All the students were involved in collaborative learning activities such as building trust and open communication, establishing group interaction, respect diversity and sharing creative ideas based on the basic level science and health curriculum aiming at promoting inquiry learning through collaboration. A quantitative analysis involving the use of the Chi-square test at 0.05 level of significance, Likelihood ratio and Somer’s symmetric was conducted to see the association between the variables. The results showed that science and health collaborative learning activities by gender were not associated significantly. There was no statistically significant difference (α=0.05) between the variables studied. The findings showed a weak association with gender and collaborative science and health learning activities in the classrooms.

Highlights

This study introduced the comparison of the effectiveness of collaborative learning among boys and girls in the basic level community schools in Nepal
Researchers proposed that the effective implementation of collaborative learning help to form a cooperative society as the students understand the real meaning of society and human life
This study explores the status of collaborative learning by gender in science in the Community Schools in Nepal

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Introduction

This study introduced the comparison of the effectiveness of collaborative learning among boys and girls in the basic level community schools in Nepal. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of collaborative learning strategy to scaffold science learning activities. This study will help in the transformation of science learning activities from chalk and talk method to collaborative learning in science and health subjects among the students at basic level community schools in Nepal. Researchers proposed that the effective implementation of collaborative learning help to form a cooperative society as the students understand the real meaning of society and human life. Basic level community school students in Nepal engaged in the traditional ways of pedagogical approaches such as dictation and lecturing in controlled classroom environment to secure high marks in the examination. The students’ understanding of the real meaning of science and health and its connection with the livelihood activities is in danger

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