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Biological Keys: Important Tools & Learning Devices
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Cooperative Learning & Biological Keys
As the clamor for reforms in biology education becomes louder and louder, more educators are searching for ways to improve student learning. The National Science Education Standards (1996) characterize science as an active process, involving students in "hands-on" as well as "minds-on" activities (p. 1). Student performance should merge the two endeavors together into the inquiry method of learning.
According to Paris et al. (1998), lab...
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Cooperative Learning in the Science Classroom.
The Science Teacher
; Byline: Emily Lin Even though much has been written about cooperative learning in recent years, busy high school teachers contending with heavy curricular and teaching demands might not know much about the instructional method. Equipped with only a partial understanding of cooperative learning,
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How cooperative learning works for special education and remedial students.
Exceptional Children
; ... they have to hash out their difficulties (Antil et al., 1998, p. 425). Teachers' adoption of cooperative learning comes as good news for special and remedial advocates who see it helping a wide range of struggling learners overcome obstacles they might not overcome ...
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Comparing the quality of students' experiences during cooperative learning and large-group instruction.
The Journal of Educational Research
; Research on cooperative learning has proliferated in the last 3 decades. Researchers originally began efforts to examine its effectiveness by comparing cooperative learning with traditional instruction. Numerous studies were conducted in which student outcome measures, usually scores on quizzes or
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Applying cooperative learning in health education practice.
Journal of School Health
; Cooperative learning involves the instructional use of small groups so students work together to maximize their own and each other's learning.(1) It includes both a teaching philosophy and a collection of instructional methods widely institutionalized into elementary and secondary classrooms.
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Moving beyond lecture: cooperative learning and the secondary social studies classroom.
Education
; Coke (2005) argues that vertical cooperative learning is needed for pre-service and in-service elementary and secondary teachers. By participating in cross-grade level, interdisciplinary cooperative learning meetings, teachers at both levels can learn to solve problems together, reduce gaps and
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Cooperative Learning as a Classroom Management Strategy
Momentum
; Small groups or teams, comprised of students of different levels of ability, work together to accomplish shared goals and to maximize their own and each other's learning Educator John Holt wrote, "We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging
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Cooperative Learning: Enhancing Individual Learning Through Positive Group Process
Annual Review of Nursing Education
; "I hate working in groups! I always end up being the one that does all the work." "Group work is awful! There is always at least one person who never contributes to the project. It's so frustrating!" "It doesn't seem fair that the one person in the group who did no work gets the same grade that the
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Implementing a research-based model of cooperative learning.
The Journal of Educational Research
; Cooperative learning involves groups of students working to complete a common task. It is a rich educational strategy because it affords elaborate student interactions. That richness makes cooperative learning a complex construct to study. Given its complexity, researchers have attempted to specify
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Cooperative learning: an investigation of the knowledge and classroom practice of middle grades teachers.
Education
; Introduction As the United States moves toward the next century there appears to be a need more than even before for a populace that can work together to manufacture quality products, interact appropriately with diverse groups of individuals, think in higher-order ways, be effective communicators.
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Cooperative learning and multicultural classrooms.
The Clearing House
; ... incidents of racism (Pine and Hilliard 1990). Public recognition of these problems is growing; in a recent New York Times/CBS News poll (Racial division persists 1993), only 37 percent of Americans rated the nation's race relations as good. Before planning ...
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