IMPACTS OF JIGSAW AND TEAMS-GAMES-TOURNAMENTS (TGT) ON SOCIAL STUDIES PRESERVİCE TEACHERS’ EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS

Abstract

Classroom practices of teachers are affected by their personal epistemological beliefs andcooperative learning methods are taking a large place in today’s education world. Byimplementing two different cooperative learning methods in a college of education course,this study examined the effects of jigsaw and teams games tournaments (TGT) onepistemological beliefs of social studies preservice teachers. 30 students participated in theresearch who attended 4th grade at Artvin Coruh University Social Studies Educationdepartment at 2015-2016 academic year. Data were collected with SchommerEpistemological Questionnaire and analyzed by independent groups t-test. The findingselicited that jigsaw is significantly more effective that TGT on social studies preserviceteachers’ epistemological beliefs in general and for two of the dimensions measured: “thebelief that learning depends on effort”, and "the belief that learning depends on ability". Butfor the dimension, "the belief that there is only one unchanging truth", there was nosignificant differences between two methods.