The Differences between Self-Organized Group and Designated Group for Cooperative Learning

Abstract

The literatures have indicated that cooperative learning facilitates enhancing learning performance, which focuses on (1) the interaction and the collaboration between grouping members, and (2) one member helping other members to be successful. The literatures have shown that the grouping organization is a critical issue for promoting learning achievement in cooperative learning. To evaluate the differences between the self-organized groups and the designated groups, this paper has conducted a serial of experiments and assessments to study the differences of learning performance, participation and satisfaction degree. In the self-organized groups the grouping members are decided by the grouping members, whereas the grouping members in the designated group are composited of the considering conditions. The experiment have demonstrated that the learning achievement of the designated group is high than the self-organized group. For the participation and the satisfaction degree of the curriculum, the self-organized group is high than the designated group.