Learning in small groups with PeerLearning.net can promote growth in student social-emotional skills!
Given the uneven track record of adjunctive social–emotional learning (SEL) programs and waning effects by middle and high school, we...
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PeerLearning.net can help students build more positive peer relations and reduce mental health symptoms!
Background Adolescent mental health issues are a major public health concern, highlighted by the US Surgeon General as a crisis....
Using PeerLearning.net a few times a month can reduce teacher stress and burnout and enhance self-efficacy!
Teaching is a challenging profession, and teachers experience stress due to the difficulties associated with shifting educational...
Cooperative learning can reduce student stress and emotional problems
Adolescents, particularly early adolescents, are vulnerable to stress created by negative peer interactions. Stress, in turn, can lead to...
Cooperative learning can reduce racial disparities in educational outcomes
Despite Brown vs. Board of Education, prejudice still exists in the American school system. These attitudes can give rise to negative...
Jigsaw method ranks #7 on Hattie's list
John Hattie has ranked hundreds of educational interventions in terms of their effects on student achievement. The jigsaw method (a form...
A meta-analysis of the effects of face-to-face cooperative learning.
One of the major conclusive results of the research on learning in formal learning settings of the past decades is that cooperative...
Oral discussion, group-to-individual transfer, and achievement in cooperative learning groups
Seventy-five 2nd graders were randomly assigned to cooperative learning groups in which oral discussion was structured or unstructured or...
Promoting social communication skills through cooperative learning and direct instruction
The effectiveness of a cooperative learning group structure and direct instruction in promoting social communication of delinquent female...
Effects of cooperative learning on peer relations, empathy, and bullying in middle school
Although researchers have developed prevention programs to reduce bullying, the results are mixed, and this may be due to a degree of...
Cooperative learning effects on peer relations and alcohol use in middle school
We tested a prevention approach aimed at reducing growth in alcohol use in middle school using four waves (2 years) of data from a...
Promoting early adolescents' achievement and peer relationships
Emphasizing the developmental need for positive peer relationships, in this study the authors tested a social-contextual view of the...
The power of peer influence to address student behavioral problems
As children reach adolescence, peer groups gain special power to influence their behavior, and young people tend to adapt their behavior...
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