Implementation of Cooperative Learning Method to Enhance the Students' Learning Ability and Students' Core Competencies

Modern society is complex and ever-changing. To adapt to this situation, the level of education must be continuously enhanced, and college students who are about to enter society are the group that needs the most attention. As a creative and effective teaching organizational form and teaching strategy, the cooperative learning method plays an important role in education and teaching. This article research aims to achieve the following two goals- 1) Compare students' learning abilities after the cooperative learning method and traditional teaching method. 2) Compare students’ core competencies after the cooperative learning method and traditional teaching method. The participants in this study were students studying physics at Guangxi Normal University for Nationalities in China. It includes a control group consisting of 30 students and an experimental group consisting of 30 students. The research tool used a Likert scale question, and the data were analyzed using normal distribution and standard deviation. The research results show that students' learning ability and core competencies after the cooperative learning method are better than traditional teaching method (P<0.01).