The Goals of Cooperative Learning of Group investigation

The Goals of Cooperative Learning of Group investigation

One of the goals of cooperative learning is to teach students initiative and self-reliance. Teachers want to see students seek out their peers for assistance rather than them (Dahley, 2006). Further, Sanjaya (2006:248) says the goals of cooperative learning is “ dapat mengembangkan kemampuan siswa untuk menguji ide dan pemahamannya sendiri, mengenai umpan balik. Siswa dapat berpraktik memecahkan masalah tanpa takut membuat kesalahan, karena keputusan yang dibuat adalah tanggung jawab kelompoknya”.

Students' learning goals may be structured to promote cooperative, competitive, or individualistic efforts. In contrast to cooperative situations, competitive situations are ones in which students work against each other to achieve a goal that only one or a few can attain. In competition there is a negative interdependence among goal achievements; students perceive that they can obtain their goals if and only if the other students in the class fail to obtain their goals The result is that students either work hard to do better than their classmates, or they take it easy because they do not believe they have a chance to win. In individualistic learning situations students work alone to accomplish goals unrelated to those of classmates and are evaluated on a criterion-referenced basis. Students' goal achievements are independent; students perceive that the achievement of their learning goals is unrelated to what other students do. The result is to focus on self-interest and personal success and ignore as irrelevant the successes and failures of others.