Experimental Study Of Primary School Competition - Cooperative Learning And Social Development

The phase in the primary school is the key period for the children's social development. Competition, cooperation and children's social development are closely interrelated. Competition-cooperation learning, as an important instruction thought and form, helps to promote the primary school students' social development soundly and thoroughly. This thesis chooses two classes of Grade Five as the targets, with one class as the experimental class by adopting integral cooperation-competition approach and three-month intervention in teaching, and the other class as the ordinary class with no interference. With the measurement of peer-relationship questionnaire, the Self-Esteem Scale (SES) and Social Anxiety Scale for Children (SASC), probes into the feasibility of group competition-cooperation in the class teaching under the instructional intervention; moreover, based on that, the thesis further studies its influence on their grades and the development of students' sociality such as their peer relationship, self-esteem, and social anxiety, to draw the following conclusion that those students who accept competition-cooperation learning have a significant difference in the degree of being accepted by peers, self-esteem, social anxiety and mathematics grades comparing with the ordinary class students while there is no significant difference in their peer acceptance and Chinese grades.