Comparison of Effectiveness of Reverse and Cooperative Learning Methods on Creativity and Academic Self-Efficacy of Female Senior High School Students

Subject Areas : Curriculum Design and Development

Tayebeh Fallah ¹ , Fariba Hafezi ² , Behnam Makvandi ³ , Sasan Bavi ⁴

1 - PhD Student, Department of Educational Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
4 - Instructor, Department of Educational Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2021-05-31 Accepted : 2021-06-20 Published : 2020-07-01

Keywords: Creativity, academic self-efficacy, Cooperative learning, Reverse learning,

Abstract :

Purpose: The objective of this study was to compare effectiveness of reverse and cooperative learning methods on creativity and academic self-efficacy of female senior high school students.Methodology: This was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test design and the control group. The study population consisted of female senior high school students in Ahvaz during the academic year 2019-2020. The research sample was 90 people who were randomly selected from three classes of a school and two classes were selected as experimental groups (reverse and cooperative learning) and a class was selected as a control group. Each experimental group was trained in 10 sessions of 75 min by reverse and cooperative learning methods and the control group received no training. The research tools were Abedi (1993) Creativity Test Questionnaire and Morgan-Jinks (1999) Student Efficacy Scale. The data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance and Bonferroni post hoc test using SPSS-22 software.Findings: The study results showed that experimental and control groups were significantly different in terms of creativity and academic self-efficacy (P <0.05). In other words, reverse and cooperative learning methods increased creativity and academic self-efficacy compared to the control group (P <0.05), but no significant difference was found between them in terms of creativity and academic self-efficacy (P> 0.05).Conclusion: Regarding the effectiveness of both learning methods and no significant difference between them, both reverse and cooperative learning methods can be used to increase creativity and academic self-efficacy.