THE Effects of Cooperative Learning Activities with Games on Academic Achievement and Teamwork Skills in Geography Subject of Grade 7 Students

Abstract

This purpose of this research study were to: 1) examine the academic achievement in geography subject of grade 7 students who learned through cooperative learning activities with games, 2) investigate the effectiveness of cooperative learning activities with games on the academic achievement in geography subject of grade 7 students, and 3) study the teamwork skills of grade 7 students who learned through cooperative learning activities with games. The participants in this study were grade 7 students with a total of 28 students. The research tools used were a 3 lesson plans with an average suitability and consistency rating of 4.96 and a standard deviation of 0.06, a 30-item achievement test with a difficulty level between 0.40 and 0.80, an discrimination index between 0.31 and 0.54, and a reliability coefficient of 0.96, and a 15-item teamwork skills assessment with an item-objective congruence index ranging from 0.67 to 1.00.

The research design was a quasi-experimental One Group Pretest-Posttest Design. The statistical methods used to analyze the data included percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results of the study revealed that:

               1) The academic achievement in geography subject on the unit "Asia" of grade 7 students using cooperative learning activities with games: Pre-test score 9.86, Post-test score 20.43. 2) The effectiveness of the cooperative learning activities with games on the academic achievement in geography subject of grade 7 students was 0.52. and 3) The teamwork skills of grade 7 students who learned through cooperative learning activities with games were at high level (µ = 4.32,  = 0.70)