Secondary school music education students’ perception of technology-assisted cooperative learning (Percepción del alumnado de música de educación secundaria sobre el aprendizaje cooperativo asistido por tecnología)

Abstract

ABSTRACT Cooperative learning has been one of the burgeoning methodological approaches in recent decades due to its empirically demonstrated benefits. The use of technologies to support this methodology plays a fundamental role in better implementing it. This paper presents a study conducted with music students in the third year of ESO (Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria, or Compulsory Secondary Education) (n = 145) with the aim of ascertaining their perception of technology-assisted cooperative learning, an essential factor in creative projects that are extremely organizationally complex. In this study, we adopted a quasi-experimental design of repeated measures for a pre- and post-stage with a control group and an experimental group. The results suggest that there are statistically significant differences in academic performance and satisfaction with the methodology used. The conclusions show that technology-assisted cooperative work may be one of the few methodological alternatives that very effectively contribute to implementing creative projects.