Abstract
Education is considered as a vehicle for national, social and economic development. Developmental goals may not be achieved unless appropriate educational policies are carefully planned. Cooperative learning is a teaching approach in which students work cooperatively in small teams with individuals of different talents, abilities and background to complete a common goal. This study was set out to examine the views about cooperative learning in domain of group work of second year civil engineering students of Arba Minch University, Ethiopia. Analysis of the data yielded that student was favorable to do work on group work along with associated cooperative learning methods. The results of this study suggest that students could be developing different attitudes toward teamwork from their educational experiences. The challenge for University educators is to develop skills to facilitate positive teamwork experience among their students who will need to interact with each other in transnational teams in the workplace of the future.
Highlights
Education is considered as a vehicle for national, social and economic development
The cooperative learning structure is a one and permanent organization in which students who belong to a group collaboratively perform tasks of different subjects both in class and outside
It is required to find out the cooperative learning methods predominantly used in class, the cooperative learning methods preferred by students
Summary
Quality teaching and learning has taken center stage in the on-going educational reforms in higher institutions as promoting learning has become a major issue of concern to the 21st century university [12]. Cooperative learning has been shown to be effective in improving the quality of learning [13]. According to Abyi, Ethiopian schools of different levels have stimulated a fixed cooperative learning structure [1]. The ‘cooperative learning’ structure comprising the students, one of whom is the best achiever and the leader of the group. The rest of the group members are mixed ability students and gender representative. The cooperative learning structure is a one and permanent organization in which students who belong to a group collaboratively perform tasks of different subjects both in class and outside
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