Effects of cooperative learning strategy on undergraduate kinesiology students' learning styles

A growing body of research supports cooperative learning as an effective teaching strategy. A specific cooperative learning strategy, Team-based Learning, was applied to a convenience sample of four undergraduate sophomore-level motor behavior Courses over four semesters from Fall 2002 to Spring 2004 to examine whether this strategy Would affect students' learning styles. The data from the Grasha-Reich-Mann Student Learning Style Scales indicated that this teaching strategy was associated with a significant decrease in the negative Avoidant and Dependent learning styles and,in improvement in the positive Participant learning style.