Cooperative Learning Approach as Innovation to Improve Students’ Academic Achievement and Attitude in Teaching Biology

Abstract

The quality of education that teachers provide to student is highly dependent upon what teachers do in the classroom. Thus, in preparing the students of today to become successful individuals of tomorrow, science teachers need to ensure that their teaching is effective. This study aimed to compares the application of Cooperative learning approach on the students’ academic achievement and attitudes in teaching biology. The study sought to determine the effectiveness of cooperative learning approach against conventional teaching. The study employed the experimental type of research. The design compared the result obtained from researcher – made - achievement test and attitude survey in biology in experimental sample which is cooperative learning approach with the control sample exposed to Direct Instruction. The study revealed that the gained scores of the experimental group gained 41.86 % from the pre- and post-achievement test greater than the controlled group gained score of 36.49 %. Furthermore, in the attitude survey showed that the experimental group gained 81.90 % from the pre- and post-attitude survey which greater than the control group gained 81.69%. Using t- test of significance in both control group and experimental group showed that there is no significance difference between pre – achievement test and post – achievement test at probability level of greater than 0.05. In F -test revealed that there is no significant difference between the mean scores of pre-attitude score and post- attitude score of the control and experimental groups.