A School-based Study on the Effects of Group Investigation on Academic Achievement and Motivation of High and Low Ability Students in Two Secondary Schools in Singapore (completed)

Ivy Tan
Email: ivy.tan@nie.edu.sg

Collaborators:  Christine Lee and Shlomo Sharan (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

This study is a school-based experiment which evaluate the effects of the Group Investigation (G-I) method of cooperative learning versus the effects of regular instruction on students’ academic achievement and on their motivation to learn. Nine classes of secondary two students in geography (five classes from Express stream and four classes from Normal (Academic) stream) of two schools will participate in the nine-week experiment. All students exposed to the Group Investigation method are expected to have a greater degree of intrinsic motivation to learn and a deeper level of understanding of the significance of the environmental issues they will study than will their peers from classes conducted with the current methods of instruction.

Source of funding: AcRF