Student’s Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning in Case of Second Year Civil Engineering, Arba Minch University

Kedir Nebi Habib

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Student’s Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning in Case of Second Year Civil Engineering, Arba Minch University

Kedir Nebi Habib

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Education is considered as a vehicle for national, social and economic development. Developmental goals may not be achieved unless appropriate educational policies are carefully planned. Cooperative learning is a teaching approach in which students work cooperatively in small teams with individuals of different talents, abilities and background to complete a common goal. This study was set out to examine the views about cooperative learning in domain of group work of second year civil engineering students of Arba Minch University, Ethiopia. Analysis of the data yielded that student was favorable to do work on group work along with associated cooperative learning methods. The results of this study suggest that students could be developing different attitudes toward teamwork from their educational experiences. The challenge for University educators is to develop skills to facilitate positive teamwork experience among their students who will need to interact with each other in transnational teams in the workplace of the future.

DOI	10.11648/j.ijtam.20200606.13
Published in	International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics (Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2020)
Page(s)	105-108
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Cooperative Learning, Small Team, Active Learning, Quality of Education

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Kedir Nebi Habib. (2020). Student’s Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning in Case of Second Year Civil Engineering, Arba Minch University. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics, 6(6), 105-108. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijtam.20200606.13

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Kedir Nebi Habib. Student’s Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning in Case of Second Year Civil Engineering, Arba Minch University. Int. J. Theor. Appl. Math. 2020, 6(6), 105-108. doi: 10.11648/j.ijtam.20200606.13

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Kedir Nebi Habib. Student’s Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning in Case of Second Year Civil Engineering, Arba Minch University. Int J Theor Appl Math. 2020;6(6):105-108. doi: 10.11648/j.ijtam.20200606.13

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Kedir Nebi Habib

Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Science, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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Kedir Nebi Habib. Student’s Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning in Case of Second Year Civil Engineering, Arba Minch University. Int. J. Theor. Appl. Math. 2020, 6(6), 105-108. doi: 10.11648/j.ijtam.20200606.13

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Kedir Nebi Habib. Student’s Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning in Case of Second Year Civil Engineering, Arba Minch University. Int J Theor Appl Math. 2020;6(6):105-108. doi: 10.11648/j.ijtam.20200606.13

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