Effect of Collaborative Learning on Learning Outcomes of Students with Special Needs in Inclusive School in Gurugram, Haryana

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Dr.Madhavi Sharma, Mr.Tilak Raj, Mr.RavinderSaini

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Collaborative learning in inclusive setup is one of the benchmarks to ensure the success of the implementation of inclusive education. Collaborative learning is one of the successful novel ways to deal with the need of children from diverse background and allow students to be more engaged and involved in learning process, instead of just being passive learners. Students can learn about their strengths and weaknesses as they work through and accomplish a task in small group. For the better learning outcome, it is important that schools systematically design and implement more effective inclusive practices school wide. The benefits of collaborative learning include development of higher-level thinking, oral communication, self-management and leadership skills. The objective of this research is to find out the effect of Collaborative Learning in enhancing the learning of children in inclusion. Sample: A total of 256 children and among them 60 were Students with Special Needs under the vi and viii grade which was categorized into movement impaired, cognitive impaired group and non-disabled group. Quasi- experimental design was adopted in the Research study. The For comparing Mean scores of academic performance students before and after introduction of Collaborative Learning, ‘t’ test was used. The outcome of study is the better performance of students in posttest stage, compared to pretest, this indicates that collaborative learning has impact among Students with Special Needs enhancing their learning. This study provided the base to improve and enhance the learning input of students with special needs and thus leading towards successful inclusion in all dimensions. Collaborative strategy is a learning paradigm and it assures that every member in the group has learnt something.

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