Abstract

• The main purpose of this study was to study the students' attitudes towards cooperative learning in science at Yangon University of Education. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were used to study students' attitudes towards cooperative learning in science at Yangon University of Education. In this study, purposive sampling was used. The participants in this study were (217) fifth year (first semester) students (68 male students and 149 female students) who specialize in science within the (2018-2019) academic year. As a research instrument, "Attitudes towards cooperative learning" questionnaire was used to study the students’ attitudes towards cooperative learning. The instrument was based on Borich (1996) components of a cooperative learning activity. Students’ attitudes towards cooperative learning questionnaire included (40) items on five-point Likert-scale described by five responses: strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for the analysis of the quantitative data. This study indicated that there was no significant difference between the attitudes of students towards cooperative learning in science in terms of gender. There was also no significant difference between the attitudes of students towards cooperative learning in science in terms of state (or) region. It can be concluded that no difference between boys and girls on grades according to the questionnaire. There was also no difference between state (or) region according to the questionnaire.