Includes updates and/or revisions. White and African-American students can perform dramatically differently in the classroom, depending on how their teachers structure their learning groups, a new ...

Cooperative and collaborative learning are not new concepts in the field of education - they have been studied for decades and have been used as classroom practices for much longer than that. Although ...

Cooperative Learning is when small teams of students work together to better understand a subject and solve problems. Advantages of Cooperative Learning are broad and deep. A joint study conducted by ...

When students engage in group work that is intentionally designed to support cooperative learning, they develop interpersonal and critical thinking skills while practicing accountability behaviors ...

The Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE) aims to transform approaches to STEM education from kindergarten through faculty development, through interdisciplinary ...

Decades of research have documented the positive impacts of cooperative learning on student success: increased learning, retention through graduation, improved critical thinking, and intrinsic ...

Applied learning is a practical approach that is supported by research to increase student motivation, foster student-centered instruction, and provide real world application. It is also an ...