The Effect of Cooperative and Mastery Learning Methods on Primary Grade Students' Learning and Retention of Economic Concepts

Autor:	Linda P. Frerichs, Luke K. Pat, James D. Laney, Dean K. Frerichs
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	Cooperative learning Instructional design Teaching method Economics education Developmental and Educational Psychology Primary education Mathematics education Cognition Mastery learning Academic achievement Psychology Education
Zdroj:	Early Education and Development. 7:253-276
ISSN:	1556-6935 1040-9289
Popis:	Empirical studies have shown the positive effects of combining cooperative and mastery learning methods on mathematics achievement higher order questioning skills, and originality, but little is known, at present, about the effects of cooperative-mastery learning in other subject areas or on other cognitive outcomes. The problem of this study was to explore the effects of cooperative and mastery learning methods, alone and in combination, on first and second grade students' learning and retention of basic economic concepts. A 2 X 2 (cooperative X mastery) factorial design compared the achievement of one hundred-twenty students who were individually randomly assigned (using grade level as a stratification variable) to one of four treatment conditions—instruction on basic economic concepts using (1) cooperative learning, (2) mastery learning, (3) cooperative-mastery learning, or (4) a control treatment (no cooperative or mastery learning). All subjects were administered a written pretest, post-test, and del...
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