Collaborative learning in students of basic high school in Colombia

Abstract

Collaborative learning implemented in basic secondary education students is an avant-garde strategy for the construction of learning in students of basic secondary education in Colombia. The aim of this article is to discern-about this aspect of education around its elements and its advantages. Theoretically, the livelihood is based on authors as Tecnologico de Monterrey (2006), Sánchez, (1999), Johnson, (1993), Tennison, (2001), among others, taken from the doctoral thesis by the author of this article. The bearing methodology of appropriation of the contents of this article is based on content analysis of the literature assumed to the theoretical framework of the doctoral thesis of the author of the article. The results highlight in conclusive way characteristics and techniques of formative assessment as a strategy for recognition of learning built by the student. The conclusions provided for this article, apart from the synthetic of the analysis conceptual character, talk about individual responsibility, positive interdependence, face-to-face interaction the team work and the process of the Group on the elements of the BC and, by other hand, the emphasis on the dialogue, communication, productivity, the generation of a common language and the activation of individual thought in relation to its advantages, in the field of basic secondary education in Colombia.