@misc{10481/65032,
year = {2020},
month = {11},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/65032},
abstract = {The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) show how education is essential for
creating values in students. In particular, SDG 4 (quality education) and SDG 5 (gender equality)
indicate how co-education should be a sustainable benchmark. Co-educational methodologies have
been studied for decades. Among them, cooperative learning is considered a valid technique for
developing social relations and competences. This study aims to describe and characterize the
gender di erences between university students regarding their impressions and behaviors when
working cooperatively. One hundred and seventy-seven university students (98 women and 79 men),
from Physical Education and Primary Education degree courses, worked with Aronson’s Jigsaw
technique. After its completion, they completed a questionnaire to analyze cooperative work in
higher education (ACOES). The results are organized into seven dimensions. The main gender
di erences found show that women gave a higher evaluation to relating cooperative learning to
future teaching roles (p = 0.017) and to understanding the need for cooperative tasks (p = 0.035).
Additionally, female students prefer groups to be organized according to academic criteria and that
they should remain stable throughout the academic period. Both genders value Aronson’s Jigsaw as a
good method for developing social competences, although they are more neutral when considering it
e ective at improving academic performance. These findings help to generate a gender-cooperation
profile that will enable future research to discuss results more accurately.},
publisher = {Mdpi},
keywords = {Methodology},
keywords = {Co-education},
keywords = {Higher education},
keywords = {Cooperative learning},
title = {The Use of a Cooperative-Learning Activity with University Students: A Gender Experience},
doi = {10.3390/su12219292},
author = {Baena Morales, Salvador and Jerez Mayorga, Daniel Alejandro and Fernández González, Francisco Tomás and López Morales, Juan},
}