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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2024)
The International "Journal of Academic Research for Humanities"

Research Articles

The Role of Cooperative Learning for Developing Social Skills of the Students at Secondary School Level

Published 30-06-2024

  • Nayyar Sultana
    • ,
  • Dr. Nabeela Shakur
    • ,
  • Rubina Kousar

Nayyar Sultana
NUMl University islamabad

Dr. Nabeela Shakur
Lecturer, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad. Pakistan

Rubina Kousar
PhD scholar, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad. Pakistan

Abstract

  The present study aims to determine the role of cooperative learning in developing the social skills of students at the secondary school level. Cooperative learning means the learning style of students in a small group with communication, discussion, collaboration, and cooperation with each other. This study was conducted to analyze the role of cooperative learning in developing the social skills of the students at the secondary school, as well as, to explore the effective social skills for students at the secondary school level. The research approach was a quantitative and self-adopted questionnaire with 15 statements concerning 5-point Likert scales as a tool used to collect and find the data. The population of the study consisted of all the students of Islamabad Model School for Boys I-8/1 Islamabad, there were enrolled about 158 students. The students of classes 9th and 10th were selected as samples of the research by using a convenient sampling technique. There were 51 (32%) students in classes 9th and 10th. The questionnaires were distributed to 51 students and 43 students responded. Thus, the response rate was 84.3%. This study examined that most of the students responded strongly agreed to develop social skills through cooperative learning.

Keywords

Cooperative, , Skills, , Convenient, , Communication, , Technique

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