ISSN 0378-0880 (Print), 2953-1454 (Online)

EVALUATION PROCESS OF COLLABORATIVE GROUP LEARNING AND THE FEELINGS IT ENGENDERS WITH REFERENCE TO MATHEMATICAL SUBJECTS TAUGHT WITH THE HELP OF ELECTRICAL RESISTORS: APPLICATION IN THE TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY

Andreas Marinos

Pages 177-204

Abstract

This work refers to a teaching evaluation of a collaborative group learning lesson by a second group of teachers who were present in the classroom during the lesson. This collaborative teaching was to do with the learning of simple concepts of fractional numbers by Technical School students who, despite their school class level and their age, had not managed to grasp these concepts earlier and could not understand them. The teaching was carried out with the help of measurements of variable resistors. After the end of the teaching, success of the programme was evaluated positively by other teachers who had been present in the classroom during the actual lesson, basing their findings on a series of criteria. At the same time there appeared a differentiation of the opinions and emotions generated in the students after this approach which correlated with the way the teacher taught the lesson and the form of peer evaluated teaching. Positive results showed the success of the teaching as did the repetition of the process with a test after one month using similar fractional concepts (done in the students’ notebooks).

Keywords

Collaborative learning, electrical appliances, evaluation, fractions.