Cooperative Learning and Assessment

by: C. Jill Swango and Sally Boles Steward

Cooperative learning in its simplest sense is two or more students working together on an assignment. In an expanded definition, cooperative learning becomes an opportunity for students to interact with one another intellectually and socially under the guidance of the teacher. It allows students to work together toward common goals, beneficial for all learners within the group (Johnson, Johnson, and Holubec 1994). At its best, cooperative learning allows the teacher to become the “facilitator of learning” while the students, with the help of one another, become the directors of their own discovery and learning process.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2003Stock # PB170X_5

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