This article describes how clickers (student response systems) may be used to assess and support the development of productive process skills and discourse patterns within student teams during class periods. Clicker questions may poll the class about specific features of the internal workings of teams, such as role rotation, helpful or distracting…

In this article, Betsy Potash shares the frustration she experienced as a student when working on group projects. She struggled with being a good listener and with a tendency to dominate the group projects. Teachers had not taught her how to work well in a group. During her first year as a teacher, Betsy attended a faculty retreat where she…

This report describes the approach that REL Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI) used to guide its eight research alliances toward collaboratively identifying a shared research agenda. A key feature of their approach was a two-workshop series, during which alliance members created a set of research questions on a shared topic of education policy and/or…