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Park, Joonhyeong; Song, Jinwoong – Research in Science Education, 2020
In the process of problem solving, intuitive thinking leads to findings that go beyond gaps and plays a decisive role in problem solving. Considering that problems often need to be solved in groups rather than by individuals, it is necessary to examine how intuitive thinking expressed by individuals is shared and elaborated among peers in a group…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intuition
Omidire, Margaret Funke – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This article reports on the utilization of group discussion by teachers to improve the comprehension skills of learners in their multilingual classes. The study aimed to examine solutions to low comprehension skills among learners whose language of instruction differed from their home languages. The participants were teachers (n = 12) and learners…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Language of Instruction, Comprehension, Language Skills
Turan, Olgun; Akfirat, O. Nejat – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
In this research, real experimental design with pre-test, post-test, and follow-up measurements were used. The research was carried out with 20 students attending the 5th and 6th grades of a secondary school in Istanbul. The program is found to cause an increase in the use of refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, and putting in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
Yoon, Jihyun; Jo, Tae-Jun; Kang, Seong-Joo – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
In this study, the relationship among the group creativity, empathy, and scientific inquiry ability of elementary school students were investigated. For this purpose, average scores and standard deviations of the group creativity problem solving, empathy, and scientific inquiry ability inventory were calculated and their correlation was analysed…
Descriptors: Correlation, Group Activities, Empathy, Inquiry
Lo, Michelle T.; Ruef, Jennifer L. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2020
As institutions strive to improve teaching and learning for all, educators must consider equitable instruction. This includes equitable distributions of authority and agency among students. The authors define distribution of authority as shared opportunities for decision-making in enacting mathematical tasks and agency as the power to carry out…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Student Empowerment, Participative Decision Making
Wahl-Alexander, Zachary; Malecki, Annie; Smart, Steven – Physical Educator, 2020
This study evaluated the effect of three conditions in which 34 sixth-grade students were prompted to accumulate as much activity as possible during a Sport Education season. Three intervention conditions were assessed via an alternating treatment design: (a) baseline: no prompting of students; (b) teacher prompts: verbal prompts and suggestions…
Descriptors: Prompting, Grade 6, Intervention, Athletics
Pürbudak, Aysegül; Usta, Ertugrul – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
The aim of this research is to determine the learning styles of Web 2.0 based collaborative group activities; to examine the effects on academic achievement, online cooperative learning attitude level, computer thinking skill level. The research was carried out with a quantitative method and a pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Cognitive Style
Martínez-Gómez, Alberto – Online Submission, 2020
In the last decade, the Communicative Approach has taken an important position within the English language teaching world. Many countries have abandoned their traditional teaching methods to implement this approach. The objectives of this research were to analyze the transitioning to communicative activities in Teaching English as a foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Tan, Esther – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
Collaborative learning involves the collaborative regulation of cognitive activities to establish common ground for the coordination of content. Drawing on research on cognitive scripts to embed collaboration in learning, this study examines the effect of the quality of the grounding and testing processes on the quality of the inquiry processes…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Discourse Analysis
Rudnitsky, Al; Barclay, Catharine; Binger, Lauren – Middle School Journal, 2017
This study explores the effectiveness of a workshop and accompanying conceptual framework designed to help middle school students become better participants in group work. The framework is designated BRAVE (build on ideas, risk tentative thoughts, ask good questions, value other perspectives, and use evidence). The framework is based on research…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Cooperative Learning, Workshops, Grade 5
Liu, Ming-Chi; Huang, Yueh-Min; Xu, Yo-Hsin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
Digital storytelling has been shown to be an effective tool in achieving learner autonomy during language learning. Studies have focused on providing students with multimedia authoring tools for unbinding their imagination when developing stories, but the complexity of digital story construction still presents a number of challenges to students.…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Cooperative Learning, Personal Autonomy, Story Telling
Holthuis, Nicole; Deutscher, Rebecca; Schultz, Susan E.; Jamshidi, Arash – American Educator, 2018
As schools work to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a team at Stanford University found that project-based learning is an effective framework for engaging students. The team used project-based learning, group activities, and performance-based assessments to design an effective, engaging curriculum. Over a three-year period,…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Group Activities, Performance Based Assessment
Jørring, Anne Holm; Bølling, Mads; Nielsen, Glen; Stevenson, Matt P.; Bentsen, Peter – Education 3-13, 2020
We investigated how pupils experience education outside the classroom (EOtC) as it relates to their social and academic well-being. A Danish 6th grade class were taught twice a week for nine months using EOtC. We sampled five academically low- and five high-achieving pupils from the class and conducted qualitative observations and interviews with…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement
Gillies, Robyn M. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Cooperative learning is widely recognized as a pedagogical practice that promotes socialization and learning among students from pre-school through to tertiary level and across different subject domains. It involves students working together to achieve common goals or complete group tasks--goals and tasks that they would be unable to complete by…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Success
Swanson, Patricia E. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2015
Elementary school mathematics is increasingly recognized for its crucial role in developing the foundational skills and understandings for algebra. In this article, the author uses a lesson to introduce the concept of "rates"--comparing two different types and units of measure--and how to graph them. Described is the lesson and shared…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Algebra, Skill Development