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Hanshaw, Larry G. – College Student Journal, 2012
This study sought to determine how students would describe their group-only cooperative testing experiences in terms of key elements of cooperative learning often cited in the literature. Written comments of 159 graduate students were analyzed and 26 related categories of comments were derived from 495 statements of students enrolled in two…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students
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Mandeville, Thomas F.; Menchaca, Velma – Reading Research and Instruction, 1994
Describes how a group oral final exam was designed and administered in a block of two teacher education courses taught within the social constructivist perspective. Advocates such group oral exam practices as consistent with valid assessment guidelines. Discusses limitations. (HB)
Descriptors: Group Testing, Higher Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
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Applegate, Jim – American Biology Teacher, 1995
Describes a strategy to incorporate the theme of cooperative learning into the format of graded examinations. (JRH)
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Cooperative Learning, Ecology
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Jensen, Murray; Johnson, David W.; Johnson, Roger T. – Journal of Educational Research, 2002
Examined the effects of positive interdependence versus no interdependence on college students' academic achievement. Students took weekly electronic quizzes where they could interact with groupmates in a chat room. Achievement was measured via biweekly examinations. Students in the positive interdependence condition engaged in significantly more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation
Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1968
A group of 126 University of Washington seniors, consisting of 59 women and 67 men, voluntarily retook their precollege aptitude test battery to complete an experimental "College Graduate Survey." The entrance test performance is assumed to be the intellectual level of university freshmen who progress at a normal rate and graduate in 4 years. In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Achievement Rating, College Entrance Examinations