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Group work is one way of working collaboratively in an educational setting. It holds significant importance for various reasons. Apart from enhancing learning outcomes, group works equip individuals with the required soft skills necessary to succeed in the academic, professional, and even personal contexts. Therefore, this study aimed to seek students’ perception of their use of learning strategies in group work and to determine the relationship of all stages in the group work model. This quantitative study elicited responses from a total of 107 respondents from a local university based on the convenience sampling method and the instrument used is a questionnaire which comprises of 5 sections. It was found that students perceived that all the stages had a positive impact on their experience of learning and there is a correlation between the Consensus stage and the two other stages namely Conflict and Closure stage. This research suggests that this model used for group interaction is advantageous to be implemented in the educational settings.
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