The effectiveness of Group Work in Teaching and Learning Mathematics in the Selected Secondary Schools in Mombasa Island Mombasa District, Kenya
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Date
2009-04
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Kampala International University, College of Education, Open and Distance Learning.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of group
work in teaching and learning mathematics in the selected secondary
schools in Mombasa island Mombasa District, Kenya Specific
Objectives of the study were: find out the school related factors that
hinder the implementation of group work in secondary schools, find out
the different forms of group work in secondary schools, and find out
what the attitudes of students towards group work in secondary schools.
The methods used for data collection were interview guides to the
learners.
The findings revealed that The findings indicated that lack of teachers'
efforts to form the groups was the major factor that hindered
implementation of group work since groups were mainly formed by the
teachers, the ideal form of group work was by students themselves and
not the teachers and that all the students had a positive attitude towards
the formation of group work.
The study recommended that, government should make it a policy to
encourage the formation of group work as a teaching method especially
in science subjects like mathematics which students consider to be hard,
teachers should encourage the students to form their own groups so long
as they are careful not to choose group members who are not serious
with the intention of the group formation. Students should be
encouraged to form groups in order to encourage them to achieve good
academic results in mathematics and indeed in other subjects
Description
A research report submitted to the Institute of Open
and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirement for the Award of Bachelor
of Education Sciences of
Kampala International University.
Keywords
Mathematics subject, Learning, Teaching, Group Work, Effectiveness, Secondary Schools, Mombasa