Effects of orienting activities and practice on achievement,continuing motivation,and student behaviors in a cooperative learning environment |
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| Authors: | James D Klein Doris R Pridemore |
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| Institution: | (1) the Department of Learning and Instructional Technology at Arizona State University, USA |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of orienting activities and type of practice on achievement, continuing
motivation, and student behaviors in a cooperative learning environment. Eighty graduate education majors were assigned to
cooperative groups and required to learn instructional design principles from three instructional television lessons. Each
lesson included specific orienting activities (advance organizers or objectives) and different types of practice (verbal information
or intellectual skills). Results indicated that subjects who worked in groups that received intellectual skills practice performed
better on the application portion of the posttest than those who received verbal information practice. Knowledge acquisition
and student behaviors were affected by a combination of type of practice and orienting activity. Groups that received intellectual
skills practice discussed more content, gave more help to their fellow group members, and exhibited less individual behavior
than groups that received verbal information practice. Groups given objectives discussed significantly more content than groups
given advance organizers.
The authors wish to thank Steven Ross and the reviewers ofETR&D for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. |
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