The effect of cooperative learning on social networking with creative problem solving process on creative problem solving ability and teamwork skills of pre-service teachers

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Saekhow Jirasak

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The purpose of this article is to compare the cooperative learning outcomes on social networking with the creative problem solving process which affected creative problem solving ability and teamwork skills. With the purposive sampling method, 25 pre-service teachers were divided into 5 groups according to three levels of their learning ability - clever, medium, and weak. Each group learned by means of cooperative learning on social networking in order to brainstorm and give some suggestions for solving problems to the researcher. Teamwork skills used as research instruments were as follows; solving problem activities and treatment skilled evaluation test. Samples were asked to evaluation themselves and their team after their learning through social networking.  The questionnaires, pre-test and post-test were used in this research with the analysis of Arithmetic means, standard deviation and t-test. The result of this research indicated that learners engaged in cooperative learning with creative problem solving method could succeed after having some problems solving. This group of learners all got the higher scores in post-test compared with pre-test showing statistically significant at the .05 level. Students who engaged in teamwork skills over social networking with creative problem solving ability have statistically significantly higher score than the previous test at 0.5 level.


Keywords: Cooperative learning, social networking, creative problem solving process, creative problem solving ability, teamwork skills.

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