The effects of Cooperative learning Method on the access, achievment, critical thinking and creativity skills of the elementary school fourth-grade student

In this study, the effects of Cooperative learning method -Collaborative learning technics on the access, critical thinking and creativity skills of the elementary school fourth-grade students will be examined. The research was designed according to the one of the experimental study models- Solomon's experimental model. Due to Solomon's experimental design the research was designed according to the designs of two experimental and two control groups and one of these two groups was pre-tested.The study was performed on the elementary school fourth grade students in 2006-2007 Academic year- Spring Semester.Data acquired at the end of the research were processed in SPSS 13.00 for Windows package programme. After the standard deviation and arithmetic mean of the data had been given as descriptive, the t-test analysis was used.The results derived from the research findings can be summarized as below.1.The points taken from the writing skill test by experimental and control group were compared and there were significant differences in favour of the experimental group. The results show that the academic success of the control group students is significantly increasing.2.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of analysis skill, which is the sub ability of the critical thinking abilities of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is a significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.3.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of evaluation skill , which is the sub ability of the critical thinking abilities of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is a significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.4.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of explanation skill, which is the sub ability of the critical thinking abilities of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is a significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.5.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of conclusion skill, which is the sub ability of the critical thinking abilities of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is a significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.6.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of comment skill, which is the sub ability of the critical thinking abilities of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is a significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.7.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of summery skill, which is the sub ability of the critical thinking abilities of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is a significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.8.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of the fluency, which is the sub ability of creativity skill, of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is no significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.9.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of the flexibility, which is the sub ability of creativity skill, of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.10.The result of the evaluations made to evaluate the effect on the development of the originality, which is the sub ability of the creativity skill of the collaborative learning technics of cooperative learning method, shows that there is no significant difference between control and experimental groups in favour of experimental group.