Cooperative learning: a methodological answer to instructional design based on competences in the university environment

The authors of the present study devise a teacher training programme in methods of cooperative learning, that on the base of a cooperative methodology maximise the quantity and quality of the communicative transactions that are produced along the teaching and learning process, built upon the foundation of interactivity. Using a system of interactive categories, they perform an internal analysis of the parameter of mutuality to come to the conclusion that the effects of this parameter on academic achievement are conditioned by their interaction with the structure of the goals of the students.