Aprenentatge cooperatiu a les classes de Formació i Orientació Laboral del CFGM de Gestió Administrativa

Identifier:  TFM:735

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFM735

Authors:  Alonso Terragnolo, Carolina

Abstract:
The rates of early school dropout, deemed to be academic failure, a very high across all of Spain, far below the goals set by the European Union (EU). This also holds true for schools in Catalonia. This study approaches the problem of a lack of motivation and a poor participation of students in a specific class group with specific characteristics. To try and remedy this situation, a cooperative learning methodology has been implemented in the classroom in order to make students take control of their own learning, developing positive interdependence that allows them to meet their objectives together and, as such, increase motivation and participation in the proposed activities as a result. The case study, as research design, allows us to analyse the qualitative variables in the research and gauge students’ motivation and participation before and after cooperative learning. After the new methodology was applied to the teaching-learning activities, the results show that there was an increase in the students’ participation and motivation with the proposed class work, which shows that working cooperatively to meet shared goals and shared success improves students’ intrinsic motivation.