Student Interaction and Learning in Small Groups

Abstract

Rev. versions of papers originally presented at the second conference of the International Association of Cooperation in Education, held at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, July 1982. Part I. Learning to cooperate, cooperating to learn: basic concepts. An introduction to cooperative learning research -- Children in cooperation and competition: antecedents and consequences of self-orientation -- Dimensions of cooperative classroom structures -- Part II. Internal dynamics of cooperative learning. The internal dynamics of cooperative learning groups -- An analysis of cooperation in relation to cognitive controversy -- Student interaction and learning in small groups: a research summary -- Part III. Cooperative learning in mathematics and science. Team-assisted individualization: combining cooperative learning and individualized instruction in mathematics -- Small-group learning and teaching in mathematics: a selective review of the research -- The effects of modified jigsaw on achievement, classroom social climate, and self-esteem in high-school science classes. Part IV. Cooperative learning and the multiethnic classroom. Melting pot or mosaic: cooperative education and interethnic relations -- Classroom structural bias: impact of cooperative and competitive classroom structures on cooperative and competitive individuals and groups -- Cooperative learning effects on ethnic relations and acheivements in Israeli junior-high-school classrooms -- Relating goal structures to other classroom processess -- Part V. Learning to cooperate. A program to promote interpersonal consideration and cooperation in children -- Creating a cooperative learning environment: an ecological approach -- Co-op Co-op: a flexible cooperative learning technique.