DEVELOPMENT OF A SCALE FOR COOPERATIVE AN D COMPETITIVE LEARNING PREFERENCES

A learning preference scale has been developed with samples of apprent ices at a vocational school and secondary school students who attended a summer school program for gifted students from the German Gymnasium (grammar school), i.e. Federal Pupils Academy. The scale is a reliabl e instrument for measuring the preferences for cooperative and competi tive learning. These preferences correlated with learning strategies o f students and a cooperatively oriented instruction reduced the prefer ences for competitive learning.