The Definition of Cooperative Learning
25 members providing one another with feedback, challenging reasoning
and conclusions, and perhaps most importantly, teaching and encouraging one another Felder and Breat, 2007:1.
4 Individual accountability. All students in a group are held accountable for doing their share of
the work and for mastery of all of the material to be learned Felder and Breat, 2007:1.The structures give each student an important role
in the interactional pattern. Everyone likes to feel that they know something others can use, and everyone gets the chance of showing
this precisely via the structures Stenlev, 2003: 36. Even each person in the group contribution to their work, they will be score individually
depending on each person’s ability. 5 Group processing
It requires team member to set group goals, periodically assess how well they are working together and how they could improve to ensure
successful and efficient completion of their academic tasks, as well as score high in tests Felder and Breat, 2007:2. The purpose of group
processing is to classify and improve the effectiveness to achieve the group goals.
6 Appropriate grouping. Students are encouraged and helped to develop and practice trust-
building, leadership, decision-making, communication, and conflict management skills. On the other hand, the teacher ensures that each
26 group contains members with various attributes to strengthen problem-
solving and social skill building of all group members Felder and Breat, 2007:2.