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This article serves two functions. First, it addresses why studying collaborative discourse and collaborative argumentation is important for promoting students’ deep-level understanding of content. A literature review is presented... more
This paper examines the critical components of successful inclusion for students with severe disabilities. This review sets out to provide an overview of literature regarding effective practices for inclusion with a focus on critical... more
In the face of research that shows that workplace knowledge and learning are highly contextual, calls for the teaching of generalizable skills for the workplace have been widespread. While the authors reject the usefulness of teaching... more
This paper presents the author’s reaction to watching the Jane Elliot’s “Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes Experiment” and answers the question: Do you believe that it is still necessary to teach children about prejudice, racism, discrimination... more
Background. This study was a full-year investigation of whether children, who had previously been trained to cooperate and help each other, were able to use these behaviours in reconstituted groups without additional training one year... more
Cooperative, small-group learning is widely recognised as a pedagogical practice that promotes learning and socialisation across a range of curriculum areas from primary school through to high school and college. When children work... more
BEST COPY AVAILABLE Cooperative Learning in the Untracked Middle School Science Classroom: A Study of Student Achievement In recent years, science educators have struggled with the dual challenge of equity and excellence, of providing all... more
Based on their quantitative and qualitative investigations, the authors conclude that pair programming as a strategy for teaching student teachers could be made more effective through the incorporation of principles associated with... more
This study set out to find out the perceptions of teachers and learners of Principles of Accounts at ordinary (“O”) level in Masvingo Urban District secondary schools in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe regarding streaming of learners and... more
This paper reports a two year longitudinal study of the effects of cooperative learning on science attainment, attitudes towards science and social connectedness during transition from primary to high school. A previous project on... more
I recently co-authored an article on infusing cooperative learning in distance education: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume24/ej93/ej93a1/ That article wasn't very practical. Attached is the draft of a second article that we... more
This history simulation follows a unit on the Rwanda genocide in 1994. Students work as a small group team of the United Nations to begin the process to rebuild the country. Before the work can begin, the team must understand the short-... more
There was an air of excitement and a fl urry of activity throughout the room as desks and chairs were pushed and pulled. The fourth graders in Mrs. Lynn's 1 English language arts class prepared to meet for literature circle discussion.... more
— User equipments (UEs) offloaded from the MeNBs to the PeNBs via cell range extension (CRE) bias in a co-channel deployment suffered severe interference. The severity of the downlink interference varies significantly with the change in... more
This paper reports on a research project that investigated the use of touchscreens by children in early childhood and junior primary settings by introducing touchscreens in five classrooms in Melbourne. Several methods to obtain... more
Participatory design is a concept originating out of the Scandinavian nations (Schuler & Namioka, 1993) that has as its objective the inclusion of the user in the design and implementation of any new technology. It is a user driven design... more
This paper reports on the impact of the implementation of active and collaborative practices in ICT (information and communication technologies) classrooms. Both of these approaches convey a lot of responsibility from the teacher to the... more
Students Teams Achievement Division (STAD) is a cooperative learning strategy in which learners work in heterogeneous groups to achieve a common goal. It has been widely used in teaching different subject areas under different settings.... more
The failure to successfully complete gateway calculus courses often prevents ethnic minority students from pursuing science and engineering majors. Research suggests that this failure to succeed is caused more by social factors than by... more
Based on a year-long interpretive research project, this article describes the arrangements for collaborative writing in an urban elementary classroom. In contrast to typical descriptions of collaboration, this study suggests a more... more
Focusing on the interplay of context and language, this study examined a group of high school students and their mentors' use of language during a robotics competition. This informal setting allowed us to gain insights into the mediation... more
Collaborative peer learning environments have received increasing attention in classrooms due to the potential for improving learning and achievement. Yet previous research shows that not all students benefit from the collaborative... more
Teaching chemistry particularly at a historically black college and university (HBCU) involves understanding and being aware of the cultural and intellectual diversity of the class. Therefore, it is imperative that instructional... more
ABSTRACT. The authors compared the performance of 78 African American 5th-grade students who studied a math-estimation task in one of two learning contexts. Learning contexts differed in the degree to which they afforded the expression of... more
CSCL environment. The teachers' patterns of online interactions were analyzed through social network analysis and the interaction analysis model (IAM). Findings: Our findings indicate that the teachers formed a socially cohesive... more
In this paper we focus on the role of signs in students' perceptive processes underpinning the generalization of numeric-geometric patterns. Based on a videotaped Grade 9 classroom group activity undertaken by three students and framed by... more
ABET states in Criterion 3(d) that engineering students should demonstrate "an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams." As we enter an era of globalization, industry is placing a greater emphasis on engineers who can engage in... more
Online education can play a crucial role in increasing access to educational opportunity and in promoting lifelong learning. The Covid-19 pandemic has done even more to raise awareness of the importance of online education. The pandemic... more
A study investigated factors supporting innovation in American Indian education by comparing data from two separate studies. One was a followup study of 25 Indian educators' implementation of cooperative learning and whole language... more
This paper focuses on the peculiarities of Cooperative credit Administration and the need to review it's traditional sources of funds and their application.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Massachusetts) has developed a new freshman course titled "Computer Analysis in Civil Engineering" as part of a curriculum revision project which emphasizes critical thinking, cooperative group... more
The Bologna Declaration and the implementation of the European Higher Education Area are promoting the use of active learning methodologies such as cooperative learning and project based learning. This study was motivated by the... more
This paper reports our implementation of a handheld wireless environment to support Jigsaw cooperative learning activities in a college setting. A quasi-experimental research design was conducted to investigate the effects of using... more
This qualitative cross-case study explored the experiences that learners describe within online collaborative groups. The study context was a fully online graduate course on adult learning. The findings suggest that the small online... more
There is a need to incorporate constructivist environments in the pedagogical practice. A constructivist learning environment allows students to build up their own knowledge (based on previous one) while working jointly among them in a... more