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Cooperative Learning

The Collaborative Classroom
This site asks, what is a collaborative classroom? Visit this web page to view learning and thinking curricula that require a commitment to collaboration.
( http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/rpl_esys/collab.htm )
Cooperative Learning
Go to this site for an overview of the cooperative learning model of instruction.
( http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v01n02/cl.htm )
Cross-Age and Peer Tutoring
ERIC Digest #78 discusses cross-age and peer tutoring, methods of instruction in which learners both help each other and learn by teaching.
( http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d78.html )
Collaboration Within and Among Minds: Mastering Complexity, Individually and in Groups
This site analyzes the different perspectives students from a group-learning background bring to problem-solving situations.
( http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~lsherry/cscl/Feltovich_Spiro.html )
Theoretical and Empirical Support for Cooperative Learning

Enhancing Student Thinking Through Collaborative Learning
ERIC Digest #130 reveals the value of collaborative or group learning in promoting students' thinking.
( http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d130.html )
Collaboration Within and Among Minds: Mastering Complexity, Individually and in Groups
This site analyzes the different perspectives students from a group-learning background bring to problem-solving situations.
( http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~lsherry/cscl/Feltovich_Spiro.html )
We Can Talk: Cooperative Learning in the Elementary ESL Classroom, ERIC Digest
This site explains that language acquisition is determined by a complex interaction of a number of critical input and output contexts.
( http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed382035.html )
Planning for and Using Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning Strategies and Children, ERIC Digest
This ERIC Digest features a host of reasons for using cooperative learning approaches in preschool centers and primary school.
( http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed306003.html )
Cooperative Learning
Visit this web page to gather some suggestions for conducting cooperative learning lessons, including guidelines for group size and the jigsaw approach.
( http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/llc/is/cl.html )
Issues in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
This site shares findings from educational research regarding the collaborative use of technology.
( http://www.ul.ie/~idc/library/papersreports/LiamBannon/12/LBMarat.html )
Cooperative Learning in Social Studies Education
This ERIC Digest describes research findings, mainly in elementary social studies classrooms, on the effects of cooperative learning.
( http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed264162.html )
Essential Elements of Cooperative Learning in the Classroom, ERIC Digest
Discusses fourteen guidelines that should be followed to successfully establish group tasks.
( http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed370881.html )
Collaborative Lesson Archive [University of Illinois]
At this site you may view examples of collaborative lessons for all subject areas (grades PK-12).
( http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/">http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/ )
Cooperative Learning Elementary Lessons
Pay a visit to this site to find cooperative learning activities and lessons by subject area for grades K-5.
( http://204.184.214.251/coop/ecoopmain.html )
Cooperative Learning Environments and Teaching Social and Group Skills

Cross-Age and Peer Tutoring
ERIC Digest #78 discusses cross-age and peer tutoring, methods of instruction in which learners both help each other and learn by teaching.
( http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d78.html )
Collaboration Within and Among Minds: Mastering Complexity, Individually and in Groups
This site analyzes the different perspectives students from a group-learning background bring to problem-solving situations.
( http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~lsherry/cscl/Feltovich_Spiro.html )
Assessment and Cooperative Learning

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
U.S. Department of Education Website with information and links about educational and psychological testing and learning theories.
( http://ericae.net/ )
Evaluating: Grading and Scoring
Teach yourself what to grade by reviewing topics such as: informal vs. formal assessment, letter grades, other types of report cards, writing anecdotal notes, weighting grades and involving students in the evaluation process.
( http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/ch11.html )
Assessment in a Constructivist Classroom
Rather than saying "No" when a student does not give the exact answer being sought, the constructivist teacher attempts to understand the student's thinking about the topic. Through nonjudgmental questioning, the teacher leads the student to construct new understanding and acquire new skills.
( http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as7const.htm )







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