The effects of cooperative learning on student success in 7th grade primary education science course

The main aim of this research is to find the effect of cooperative learning in students?success in learning Force and Motion subjects in ?Force and Motion together -Energy? unity of 7th Grade science course.In this study, pretest and posttest control group design is used. In order to selectexperiment and control groups, ?Science Success? Test and ?Turkish TextUnderstanding? Test are applied to 10 classes that belong to 6 schools that have samesocio-economic and cultural condition in Canakkale city. At the end of these tests,7/A, 7/B and 7/C classes from Mustafa Kemal Primary Education School are chosenas experiment group and 7/A, 7/B classes from Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa PrimaryEducation School are chosen as control group. Twenty eight science educationactivities that are based on Cooperative Learning and about Force and Motion areapplied by researcher in this study. During this time, control group classes continuedto their education using traditional techniques. Science Success Test that containspretest and posttest is applied to experiment and control groups at the same weeks inorder to obtain research data. Pretest and Posttest questions are evaluated using ?tand f test? and ?Statistical Packet? (SPSS 10.0 for Windows) is used for SocialSciences.The analysis of the obtained data showed that Coopeartive learning technique ismore effective than traditional learning methods in teaching Force and Motionsubjects in Primary Education 7th grade Science course by increasing the?knowledge?, ?understanding?, ?practice? and ?general? success of the students.Keywords: Science, Cooperative Learning Method, Student?s Success, Learningtogether technique, Primary Educationiv