The effect of cooperative learning methods on the success of the 5th class's students in primary school in the mathematic lesson

ivABSTRACTGRADUATE THESİS SUMMARYTHE EFFECT OF COOPERATİVE LEARNİNG METHODS ON THE SUCCESS OFTHE 5 TH CLASS?S STUDENTS İN PRİMARY SCHOOL İN THEMATHEMATİC LESSONGürkan KUZUCUOĞLUDeparment of Elemantary EducationAfyon Kocatepe University, Institute of Social SciencesMay 2006Supervisior: Yrd. Doç. Dr. İlhan VARANKThe aim of this study is researching the effect of cooperative learning methods on thefifth grade students in primary schools.This research was done taking 68 students into account at a city centre in the EgeanRegion in 2005-2006 education year, first term.For this research, an experimental group and a control group were chosen. Controlgroup was taught using traditional teaching methods and the experiment group wastaught using cooperative learning methods. The control group?s research which wassarried out with first-tests, last-tests, experiment kinds and the last test control groupdesign, lasted 4 weeks.The researchal data was obtained by using a success test which was developed to findout student?s success degree. Besides; at the end of the experiment; group workactivities group evalvation form and group work activity behaviour self evalvation formwas carried out to find out whether the subjects?(of experiment) behaviours are asneeded for the cooperative learning methods, cooperative study skills of groupmembers, their sexes and relations.vTaking the Arithmetical average, Standard deviation, t-Test and Mann Whitney U-Testwere used for research data analysis.At the end of the research, the result is that there isn?t an effective difference betweenthe raditional method groups and cooperative groups learning degree. But; although thedifference between the experimental and control groups isn?t important, according tothe last tests results; experimental group?s success is higher than control group?ssuccess. Besides this; it was found that the effect of sexual differences on behavioursneeded cooperative learning independently at the time of the experimental process wasseen at only the fourth question. But it wasn?t found any differences at the other 5guestions. And the research result shows that there isn?t any effective difference on sexamong the experimental closs students.