CHILDREN’S SOCIAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT THROUGH COOPERATIVE TEAM LEARNING
Abstract
- The purpose of this paper was to examine the children’s social skills development through cooperative team learning. The participants of the study were selected from Sagaing. A sample of 224 Grade 6 students participated in this study and it consisted of 134 male and 90 female students. Students’ social skills were measured by using “The Assessment of Children’s Social Skills through Self-Report” questionnaire developed by Carla Kmett Danielson and Carolyn Roecker Phelps. The observed mean of social skills was 82.69 and theoretical mean was 63. Most students fall into moderate social skills group so their social skills were normal. Male students’ social skills mean score was 81.95 and that of female students was 83.80. Although male students’ social skills mean was slightly higher than that of female students, there was no significant difference between male and female students. Regarding schools, according to the independent samples t test, there was a significant difference at .05 level. Moreover, students who learned by cooperative team learning more developed social skills than those who were in conventional learning. But it was found that there was no significant difference between male and female students through cooperative team learning. According to the research findings, this study highlights the fact that students’ social skills can be improved through cooperative team learning and school is one of the factors that affects upon social skills.
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Year
- 2021
Author
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Myint Myint Po
Subject
- Educational Psychology
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)