Cooperative learning can reduce student stress and emotional problemsAdolescents, 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 outcomesDespite Brown vs. Board of Education, prejudice still exists in the American school system. These attitudes can give rise to negative soc...
Jigsaw method ranks #7 on Hattie's listJohn 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 learn...
Oral discussion, group-to-individual transfer, and achievement in cooperative learning groupsSeventy-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 instructionThe 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 schoolAlthough researchers have developed prevention programs to reduce bullying, the results are mixed, and this may be due to a degree of unc...
Cooperative learning effects on peer relations and alcohol use in middle schoolWe tested a prevention approach aimed at reducing growth in alcohol use in middle school using four waves (2 years) of data from a cluste...
Promoting early adolescents' achievement and peer relationshipsEmphasizing the developmental need for positive peer relationships, in this study the authors tested a social-contextual view of the mech...
The power of peer influence to address student behavioral problemsAs children reach adolescence, peer groups gain special power to influence their behavior, and young people tend to adapt their behavior ...