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5. The Finding:

Four main stages of cooperative economy: production, review,
dissemination, and use.

6. The Principal Conclusion:
The four stages of cooperative economy would proceed more efficiently

and lead to human well-being.

Activity 2

Read the abstract below and answer the questions that follow.
The Title:
The Impact of Cooperative Learning on Student Engagement: Results
from an Intervention
The Abstract:
With an increasing awareness that many undergraduates are passive during

teaching sessions, calls for instructional methods that allow students to become
actively engaged have increased. Cooperative learning has long been popular at

the primary and secondary level and, within recent years, higher education.
However, empirical evidence of the impact of cooperative learning at the university

level is still limited. This study reports the result of a quasi-experimental real-life
intervention with cooperative learning in an undergraduate course. In-class

participation and student approaches to learning were measured before and after
the intervention to assess the impact on 140 students’ engagement levels. In

addition, open-ended comments were analyzed, revealing what faculty adopting
cooperative learning principles in higher education should be especially aware of.

Taken from Herrmann (2013)
1. Mention the rationale of the research if there is any.

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2. Mention the problem that the researcher tried to solve if there is any.

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3. Mention the method or the technique used by the researcher if there is any.

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4. Mention the independent variable(s) of the research if there is any.

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5. Mention the dependent variable of the research if there is any.

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