How Effective Is Group Work in Improving the Attitudinal Aspects of Student Learning?

Abstract

This chapter aims to explore the results relating to the students’ critical-thinking dispositions. The analytical tools of ANOVA will be employed to examine the data collected from CCTDI in the General Studies and Liberal Studies projects whilst MANOVA will be performed on the questionnaire-based survey results in the projects. Furthermore, in order to investigate the relationships between different variables related to group work, correlation analysis will be conducted and the results will be reported in a graphical format. In particular, this chapter will examine hypothesis 3 [i.e. more evidence of critical thinking (‘attitudinal’) exists in the ‘Teacher Guidance’ group (Type3) than the ‘Self-directed’ group (Type2)], and hypothesis 4 [i.e. more evidence of critical thinking (‘attitudinal’) exists in the ‘group work’ (Type2 & 3) students than the ‘conventional class’ (Type1) students].

The data followed by @ and % are also reported in Fung (2014) and Fung et al. (2016), respectively.