The Effect of Cooperative Learning on Self-esteem, Social Skills, and Educational Function of High-schoo. Students

The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of cooperative learning method on junior high school student's selfesteem, social skills and his academic performance in the course of psychology. The research population was junior high schoolincluding 99 male. Students two high school in the town (Mahneshan) were selected randomly as the research sample in which one class was considered as the experimental group and another one as the control group.The students were matched and then administration of the pretest was done. The treatments were introduced during the firs term-time followed by another test (the post test). The results were in the favor of the experimental group indicating that teaching through the cooperative Learning method has a positive effect on social skills and academic performance of the sample. However there was no effect of thetreatment on students self steem.