Abstract:

Working in groups has become an indispensable skill at least a century and has become a major feature of classrooms and the quality of the learning process during a work group depends on the characteristics of the group members. Fundamental research questions related to group formation has been elaborated such as: how a teacher can choose the appropriate students to form a consistent and successful group? basing on witch criterions teacher can choose compatible learning activities? which learning activities to choose for which group?. The purpose of this paper is to answer to research questions: How can we improve the way in which a teacher can form groups and choose learning activities? Can group formation method be automatized and help teacher to selecting adaptative learning activities?

This work is part of a line of research that is interested in group formation, it aims to propose and describe an approach that could be used to help teachers to form groups automatically by proposing algorithm based on sociometric technique to create groups, and on the Theory of multiple intelligences to readjust a consistent pedagogical activities for each group as well as the students intelligence types. In this paper, Moroccan classrooms are taken as case studies to collect data. Analysing the data received from the questionnaires completed by the students, this study led us to find that even simple techniques provide results that can be useful to teachers according to specific pedagogical needs for each group in the classroom. This study gives teachers a new perspective on how to deal with educational material and thus the possibility of making the learning content more varied.

More than proposing an algorithm, my poster will contribute to a meta-reflection on the methods of reengineering the learning process within a classroom and will attempt to show the limits and future options for practicing this approach.

In the future works , using richer data, we want to think about how to allow the teacher to visualize and understand these results, which are not yet sufficiently accessible for non-specialists.

Keywords:

Working with group, Sociometry, Multiple Intelligence theory, learning.