Factors That Influence Cooperative Learning Group

Influential Factors

Factors that may have influenced the findings were students being interviewed by their instructor and having students write down the laps they ran each week. While interviewing, the students were encouraged to be honest in their feelings about their experience in cooperative learning groups. Some students may have felt like they would be disappointing the instructor by answering in any type of negative way about cooperative learning groups. Students may have felt that answering in a negative way about cooperative learning groups may result in the teacher not liking them as much.

A second influential factor in the results may have been having students write their laps daily. The cooperative learning groups would record

Using cooperative learning groups to help student to learn and apply all physical fitness principles may be a more effective way for students to learn and experience physical education in school. Students seemed to enjoy working together as a group as they typically do when playing sports and games in physical education class. Using cooperative learning groups in all aspects of the physical education class may be a more natural way for students to learn and participate in this

After researching different student learning strategies, it became clear that cooperative learning groups may be the best way to help students to improve not only their effort but also their cardiovascular fitness. Students were organized into cooperative learning groups and over a four week period they ran laps each day and recorded how many laps they ran each week. In addition to recording the number of laps run each week, students also were tested in the 20m pacer test to see what kind of improvement would happen over the four week period. Students were also given a survey at the beginning of the research study and again as they finished up the research study to see if attitudes towards working in cooperative learning groups changed. Students also were interviewed by the researcher to further find out their feelings towards using cooperative learning groups. The results showed that cooperative learning groups did help students to improve and meet all goals in laps run and improvement in the 20m pacer test. Attitude towards using cooperative learning groups did not change much on the surveys, but were generally positive to begin with. Interviews showed that most students enjoyed working in cooperative learning groups and would like to use them in the