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Samaha, Nancy Vanderhey; De Lisi, Richard – Journal of Experimental Education, 2000
Studied collaborative reasoning in 86 seventh-grade minority students in an urban low-income school. Students who collaborated had higher percentages of fully correct explanations on the posttest than those who worked alone. Collaborative experiences were beneficial for reasoning about unfamiliar, moderately difficult, nonverbal problems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Koritz, Douglas, Ed.; And Others – 1995
Selected papers are presented from a national conference on urban issues. They are: (1) "Collaboration as a Social Process: Inter-Institutional Cooperation and Educational Change" (Charles F. Underwood and Hardy T. Frye); (2) "Mobilizing the Village To Educate the Child" (Valerie Maholmes); (3) "Pathways to Teaching: An Urban Teacher Licensure…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Students, Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth