Effects of Cooperative Learning with Jigsaw Technique on Learning Achievement and Analytical Thinking of 8th Grade Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to; 1) compare learning achievement and analytical thinking on systems in the human body and animals before and after learning of the cooperative learning to use jigsaw technique, and 2) compare learning achievement and analytical thinking on systems in the human body and animals between the cooperative learning to use a jigsaw and traditional instruction. The participants were two classrooms of the 8th-grade students from Muangtalongpittayasun School, who studied in the second semester of 2018 by using cluster random sampling for selecting lots to group as one classroom and one control group. The research instruments consisted of cooperative learning to use jigsaw lesson plans that had been tested the IOC from peers showed the value between 4.80–4.84, which the traditional instruction lesson plans had 4.76–4.84. The learning achievement test on the ratio presenting the difficulty index was between 0.37-0.67. The discriminant index was between 0.27-0.53. The reliability level was at 0.89 while the analytical thinking test on the ratio presenting the difficulty index was between 0.37-0.67. The discriminant index was between 0.20-0.60 while the reliability level was at 0.81. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, t-test for dependent sample, and t-test for independent sample. The results of this study indicated that: 1) The learning achievement and the analytical thinking about systems in the human body and animals after learning of cooperative learning using jigsaw technique were statistically significantly higher than before learning cooperative learning using jigsaw technique at the .05 level. 2) The learning achievement and the analytical thinking about systems in the human body and animals after learning cooperative learning using the jigsaw technique were statistically significantly higher than the traditional instruction at the .05 level.