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c. Benefits of Cooperative Learning
There are many benefits of implementing cooperative learning in the classroom based on some experts. Slavin 1995: 19 states that there are seven
benefits of the use of cooperative learning: 1
Cooperative learning methods that use group goals and individual accountability will increase students’ achievement.
2 The most psychological outcome of cooperative learning methods is their
effect on students’ self-esteem. Students’ beliefs that they are valuable and important individuals are of critical importance for their ability to withstand the
disappointments of life, to be confident decision-makers, and ultimately to be happy and productive individuals.
3 Cooperative goals create peer norms that support high achievement.
Essentially, the argument is that cooperative incentives motivate students to try to get each other to do academic work, and thereby gets students to feel that
their classmates want them to do their best. 4
Cooperative learning increases time on-task by engaging students’ attention and to increase their motivation to master academic materials.
5 Cooperative learning increases contact between students, gives them a shared
basis of similarity group membership, engages them in pleasant activities together, and has them work toward common goals.
6 Cooperative learning increases the student retention of the topic or language
function that is discussed.
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7 Cooperative learning help students develop skills in oral communication like
sharing an idea, clarifying, turn-taking, and etc. In addition, Cooper and Robinson 2000:12 state that cooperative learning
method is not only provide rich experiences that foster achievement and critical thinking but also develop affective dimensions of students, such as sense of
community, altruism, self-efficacy, and learner empowerment. In line with Cooper and Robinson, Bill McKeachie in Cooper and Robinson 2000: 14
suggests that if teachers want students to become more effective in meaningful learning and thinking, they need to spend more time in active, meaningful
learning and thinking. The learning process is not just sitting and just passively receiving information. Based on the benefits that are mentioned by experts above,
it can be said that cooperative learning gives positive effects on students in teaching learning process.
d. The Jigsaw Technique in Cooperative Learning
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