Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ320539
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Publication Date: 1985
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Classroom Conflict: Controversy Versus Debate in Learning Groups.
Johnson, David W.; Johnson, Roger
American Educational Research Journal, v22 n2 p237-56 Sum 1985
The effects of two types of structured academic conflict, controversy and debate, were compared with individual study on a number of dependent variables. Sixth graders (n=72) were assigned conditions on a stratified random basis controlling for sex, reading ability, and handicapping conditions. Results indicated that controversy promoted the most positive outcomes. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Classroom Research, Conflict, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Debate, Disabilities, Grade 6, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Individual Instruction, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies, Mainstreaming, Outcomes of Education, Sex Differences, Student Attitudes
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Language: English
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