THE EFFECTS OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF STUDENTS IN GYMNASTICS UNIT

The aim of the study is to determine the effects of cooperative method utilized for gymnastics unit of physical education courses on the formative achievement level of the students.A pretest and a post test with a control group from experimental models was applied for the study. Cooperative experimental group was made up of 20, 10 males and 10 females. Traditional control group was made up of 20, 10 males and 10 females. Non-educated control group was made up of 19, 9 females and 10 males. The results showed that there was a significant improvement in both cooperative experimental group and traditional control group in cognitive and psychomotor domains (p<0.05), while there was no difference in both three domains of noneducated Control Group 2 (p>0.05). When the cognitive, affective and psychomotor scores of cooperative experimental group and traditional control group were compared, a significant difference in cognitive domain was found in agreement with the cooperative experimental group (p<0.05). The statistical results showed there was no significant difference in psychomotor and affective domains between cooperative experimental group and traditional control group (p>0.05).