Students' Perception Toward Group Work In Cooperative Learning Method: A Survey Study

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify students' perspectives on cooperative learning methods especially in group work experience. This research method is a survey study that uses a questionnaire as the main instrument. There were 79 students of English Language Education who participated as respondents in this research. The data was collected by using the Abridged survey instrument by Healy et al. (2018) contained 5 aspects (group formation, skill enhancement, experience of group work, value of group work and assessment of group work). There were 50 items using 5 point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. After analyzing the data by using Microsoft excel, the results show that The highest score refers to the statement "Bekerja kelompok dengan orang-orang yang pekerja keras" with the results of Mean = 4.58 and SD = 0.59. Meanwhile, the lowest score is the statement "Tidak bermanfaat" with the results of Mean = 2.2 and SD = 0.77. The data indicates that students choose to be more attracted to people who work hard in the group formation category.