The answers to all three questions were analyzed together.
They were examined to see which overall consideration of
the lessons was given by the students and whether students
mentioned the promotion of cooperative skills, or improvements
in independent working or communicative abilities.
The analysis also examined whether or not these aspects are
used by the students as reasons to judge the jigsaw-classroom
method, either in a positive or a negative sense.
The second questionnaire was in a Likert-type format
that contained 10 statements. The students had to rate how
much they agreed with each statement. The statements
touched upon different aspects of learning, such as how the
students liked the lessons, cooperative learning, and student
activity. The students could choose from four different answers
on a scale from “I agree” to “I don’t agree”.
The questionnaires were filled out independently of each
other. The open questionnaire was distributed first so that
the answers were not influenced by the given statements in
the second questionnaire. Participatory action research is carried
out with a qualitative understanding of educational research.
The data in this case are presented and discussed in
an interpretative way. The data from both questionnaires are
related to each other and compared to the teachers’ feedback
(26).