We Will Work in Teams: An Action Research

This longitudinal study looked into the presumed effects of the group approaches in teaching statistics on the performance of graduate students in their final exams for three years. It considered adult learning theories and cooperative learning approaches in the designing of the group interventions. The study utilized a pre-experimental research design complemented with critical incident techniques and document analysis. Findings revealed that the statistics final exam performance improved significantly through the years of study with the students in the third year of implementation having the most improved scores. Student participation also increased and many of the students transformed in their outlook about statistics positively.

Keywords - adult learning, collaborative teaching techniques, critical incident technique, transformative learning