Enhancing Students’ Collaboration in Science through the Implementation of Given, Required, Evaluate, Solution, Answer Cooperative Learning Strategy

Through cooperative learning, this action research project aims to improve students’ social skills and provide a friendly and learning-focused classroom environment. Despite the emphasis on scientific education, many students need help to satisfy the requirements of this topic. This study aimed to improve the science collaboration of ninth-grade students by using a classroom-based action research methodology to adopt the Given, Required, Evaluate, Solution, Answer cooperative learning paradigm. Purposive sampling was used to choose thirty-three participants for the A. Y. 2023–2024 in an Ozamiz City private school. Utilizing methods like mean, standard deviation, and t-test, the study employed a test created by the researcher and Minitab statistical software. Before the Given, Required, Evaluate, Solution, and Answer cooperative learning strategy could implemented, 33 students (100.00%) were classified as “boring and difficult†because they did not match the expectations (M =14.455; SD = 2.252). Students are encouraged to solve scientific problems with the assistance of their peers following the use of the Given, Required, Evaluate, Solution, Answer cooperative learning technique. The student’s total performance increased considerably (M = 24.879; SD = 3.498), which may be used to determine whether or not online classes are fostering active learning. The results demonstrated that applying the Given, Required, Evaluate, Solution, Answer cooperative learning technique enhanced student learning experiences in mathematics problem-solving and collaborative scientific learning. This bolsters a suggestion to use this tactic as a teaching approach to improve student cooperation. The study’s conclusions demonstrated how putting the Given, Required, Evaluated, Solution, and Answer cooperative learning technique into practice enhanced learning opportunities and strengthened students’ scientific teamwork. This validates a suggestion for using the cooperative learning approach of Given, Required, Evaluate, Solution, and Answer, which enhances scientific problem-solving.