La agrupación basada en el rendimiento y el aprendizaje del alumnado universitario

Abstract

There are multiple criteria for grouping students and getting them to work as a team for cooperative learning. The problem is how to create the different groups of students to achieve the best results. Although this subject has been reflected upon in the context of compulsory education, little has been analyzed in the field of higher education. This paper studies whether distributing university students according to their academic performance has repercussions on the results of the teaching-learning process. For this, an analysis of variance is carried out to determine if there are significant differences in the learning outcome achieved by 48 students grouped in both homogeneous groups and heterogeneous groups based on their academic performance. The data obtained show that when students are grouped heterogeneously, better results are achieved than when they are distributed homogeneously.