Track: Engineering Economy, Education & Management

Abstract

In a very dynamic environment of today’s world, students face many forces destructing them from their studies like trend of internet use, other assignment of curricula, social  requirements, fitness issues etc.. Groups formed in a class also affect their performance. As group of good students will not allow weaker students to enter in their group. It makes the class learning very low and students less responsive/productive in writing their examinations. Cooperative approaches are supposed make them more responsive towards their performance by mixing them by breaking their informal structures. It may bring more flexibility in managing their time and effort. One such cooperative method of learning is Jigsaw method, a group based learning. This paper present an effort to implement this method of cooperative learning to management subject taught in a top institute of INDIA. It highlights the feasibility of such approach in the professional studies. A pilot test was conducted for a topic of a subject. Evaluation of the groups and the class is done in steps. It is learnt that overall performance of each students has raised and the knowledge of the topic to each one was good. Results were exciting.  Study highlights the pros and cons of this method as applied to a course of a professional program.