A cross-cultural study on the usage of cooperative learning techniques in graduate level education in five different countries

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2010

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Foundation Advancement Psychology

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Özet

The purpose of this study was to examine graduate students' experiences of cooperative learning in higher education in five ethnically, culturally and geographically different: countries. This research was an attempt to understand how a culturally distinct instruction and academic environments influence their learning processes and implications for better instructional designs. Graduate students from Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Korea, Turkey, United States, Colombia, Denmark, Lithuania and Syria arc surveyed and analysis of variance and factor analysis techniques are used in statistical analysis. Results revealed that culture did not: have effect on learning preferences. Graduate students made conscious choices whether to be involved or not in cooperative learning in their educational environment.

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Cooperative Learning, Cross-cultural Study, Graduate Students, Educative Preferences

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Revista Latinoamericana De Psicologia

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Q4

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42

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1

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