Impact of Collaborative Learning on Academic Achievement in Mathematics of Secondary Students in the School Hostel in Rural Area in India

Collaborative learning is basically known as a teaching arrangement such as small, heterogeneous groups of students work jointly to achieve a certain goal. Students or peers are encouraged and supported themselves, mentally they are aware that the responsibilities are themselves, they employ group related social skills and evaluate their own progress. The common things are positive interdependence, equal opportunities and individual accountability. So, it implies that collaborative learning groups in schools would be used as a logical teaching method. The main objective of this paper to determine the effect collaborative learning towards achievement in mathematics and also the attitude towards collaborative learning of mathematics among the hostel students of class nine in secondary school. The eighteen (18) hostel students were take part in the 8-week studies. The first 4-weeks they studied in their usual traditional way for and for the next 4-weeks in collaborative. In result there had significant difference in their academic achievement. Also from survey and field notes it can be concluded that collaborative learning had an effective positive attitude on student academic achievement in the classroom.