Teachers And Students Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning In Selected Primary Schools In Bole Sub City Addis Ababa

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of teachers andrnstudents towards cooperative learning and thereby to examine the benefits of thisrnmethod to students with special needs. To this end, a descriptive survey designrnwas selected and the research employed various data collection methodologiesrnand processed both primary and secondary data sources using quantitative andrnqualitative data analysis techniques. The study was conducted among graderneight teachers and students. Eight primary schools found in bole sub city of AddisrnAbaba were randomly selected out of sixteen primary schools found in the subrncity. A total of randomly selected 146 respondents (i.e. 66 teachers and 80rnstudents) participated in the study by filling in the questionnaire prepared forrndata collection. In addition, classroom observation was conducted and interviewsrnwith students with special needs were held. The data collected was analyzedrnusing frequency distribution, weighted mean and percentage. These wererntriangulated with qualitative data obtained from the observations and interviews.rnThe findings of the study revealed that the teachers’ perception towards arncooperative learning is positive. Besides, the school teachers confirmed that thisrnteaching method benefits more to students with special needs. Nonetheless, thernstudent respondents strongly disagree with the relevance of a cooperativernlearning and considered it as wastage of time. They also lacked motivation tornactively participate in this teaching method. The researcher strongly suggests thatrnteachers should motivate the students in primary schools to use cooperativernlearning method for the positive effect of the students’ performance. Furtherrnresearch is needed for a low perception of students towards a cooperativernlearning need to be done thoroughly

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