The effect of project based activities with cooperative lerarning method on the attitudes and achievement of students in physics course

This research has investigated the effect of project based activities with cooperative learning method on the attitudes and achievements of students attending physics course. In this research, pre-test/post-test control group design was used as an experimental design. In 2009-2010 first semester 63 science students were chosen as sample of the research. Whole science students at high school level in Ankara constituted the universe of the study. The first group was the experimental group while the other two groups were control groups. One of three classes, 10 A, was randomly assigned as experimental group while the other two, 10 B and 10 C, were randomly assigned as control groups.In this study two types of teaching method were used. These are project based activities with cooperative learning method and traditional method. The achievement test and the attitude scale for physics course were administered to students before and after two teaching methods. The students carried out activities with project subjects related to the electric unit.The study data was analyzed by SPSS 17 statistical program. The results showed that project based activities with cooperative learning method were more effective in increasing students? attitudes and achievements compared to traditional methods.