Resumen de Application of Cooperative Learning Techniques in Teaching a Programming Language

Cecilia García Cena, Basil M. Al-Hadithi, Raquel Cedazo León, Luis Dávila, Cristobal Tapia, Teresa Márquez

• This article describes the methodology followed inComputer Sciences and Microprocessor courses during the lastacademic year. All the performed activities was based oncooperative task that students developed in groups. That groupswere made up by the professor after a diagnostic test. Throughimplementation of this methodology, the students showed a highdegree of satisfaction and consequently, the results of theevaluations has been very successful. The number of passingstudents were rather better than the previous academic years.Furthermore, the desertion ratio decreased quite a lot.