Teaching Phase Diagrams through Cooperative Learning

The purpose of this descriptive and quasi-experimental research work is to analyze and compare the traditional teaching method against the cooperative learning method using the study of phase diagrams. Through this research work the results of didactic and methodological character in experimental sciences such as thermodynamics and chemistry were exposed by means of which the effect of cooperative learning in the teaching of phase diagrams was known. According to the above the basic fundamentals of cooperative learning related to the teaching of phase diagrams were used and the didactic strategy was developed. The results obtained through an experimental group and a control group were determined by the application of a diagnostic test pre-test where the students'' previous ideas about science topics (specifically thermodynamics and phase diagrams) were known.