commit to user The purpose of cooperative base groups are to give supports, help,
encourage, and assistance each member needs to make academic progress attend class, complete all assignments, learn and develop cognitively and
socially healthy ways. The use of base groups tends to improve attendance, personalize the work required and the school experience, and
improve the quality and quantity of learning.
4. Kinds of Cooperative Learning
Some kinds of CL are proposed by experts from the easiest to the most difficult to be implemented in the classroom, above all, they can be
used interchangeably in different classrooms, not only in mathematic class for instance, but also in science, reading class, etc. Due to the importance of
knowing some kinds of CL, below are short explanations of these which are often used.
a Students-Teams Achievement Divisions STAD STAD is originally researched and developed by the Hopkins
University. This method emphasizes that the success of the group which consists of different gender and achievement can only be gained
through the way in which each group member maximizes their ability to solve the content being studied. Each of the members in the team should
know the strengths and weaknesses of each other so that they are able to do the test because finally all students must take individual test on the
materials where they do by themselves.
commit to user b Teams-Games Tournament TGT
Actually, learning activities used in TGT is the same as STAD by using teacher’s presentations and teamwork. This has purpose that the
cooperation among member team is necessary because in the next time they join tournaments which make it different from STAD in which the
students play academic games with members of other teams to contribute points to their team score. The clear explanation will be
discussed separately in special section. c Jigsaw II
Jigsaw II is an adaptation of Aronson’s jigsaw technique in 1978. This is most appropriate to be used in teaching concept than ability. Students
work in heterogeneous teams as in STAD and TGT with four-member where they are assigned chapters, short books or other material to be
read, usually social studies, biographies, or other expository materials. Each member in all groups is assigned to be the expert on some aspects
of the reading assignments. After reading the material given, experts from all groups meet in order to discuss their topics, and they return to
their own group to tell topics to their teammates. At the end of the jigsaw class, there should be assessments which cover all topics.
5. Advantages of Cooperative Learning
