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Johnson, David W.; Johnson, Roger T.; Smith, Karl A. – 1998
This book explains how college faculty can use cooperative learning to increase student achievement, create positive relationships among students, and promote healthy student psychological adjustment to college. The book contains practical strategies toward these ends and presents the conceptual framework needed to create a cooperative learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, Cooperative Learning, Group Instruction
Peer reviewedSmith, Karl A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
Describes formal, intensive small group activities in large college classes, as well as initiatives to redesign courses around small-group learning. Strategies include "jigsaw," structured controversy, problem-based cooperative learning, and restructured lecture-recitation-laboratory activities. Notes basis of such strategies in constructivist…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning
