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Download full textSlavin, Robert E.; Karweit, Nancy L. – 1979
Student Team Learning instructional techniques (Teams-Games-Tournament, Student Teams-Achievement Divisions, and Jigsaw II) have been extensively researched in six-to-twelve-week classroom experiments and found to have many positive effects. This study examines the effects of the techniques when they are used as the primary instructional method…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Class Activities, Classroom Research
Peer reviewedSlavin, Robert E. – Review of Educational Research, 1980
Small-group cooperative learning methods have improved achievement, low and high level cognitive learning, race relations and mutual student concern. Most of the research focuses on four approaches: Teams Games Tournament (DeVries), Student Teams Achievement Divisions (Slavin), Jigsaw (Aronson) and Small Group Teaching (Sharan). (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Competition
