Impact of Collaborative Learning on Students' Academic Achievement at the Secondary Level
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https://doi.org/10.55737/psi.2025c-43102Keywords:
Collaborative Learning, Academic Achievement, Secondary EducationAbstract
Collaborative learning" is a word used to describe a wide variety of instructional approaches that include students' or students' and instructors' shared intellectual activity. Students generally collaborate in groups of two or more, either to create a product or to gather information, solutions, or interpretations. The study targeted the two groups of Biology students; one group was taught through a collaborative learning method, and the second one through a traditional method. In this way, their academic achievements were to be compared through experimental treatment. Those taught using traditional methods of teaching. Target participants were the secondary school students enrolled in the Biology subject from the tehsil Dhirkot in the district Bagh. The study was conducted at a local high school after getting consent from the authorities. Thirty-eight 9th-grade female students were placed into two groups depending on the results of their pre-test: experimental and control. The pair-random sampling technique was used for this process. The study implemented a pre-test and post-test control group design. The data was analyzed through a t-test. The study found that collaborative learning is more effective than traditional methods for improving the academic achievement of Biology students.
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