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Murphy, Shelia E. – Performance and Instruction, 1995
Examines collaboration as a unique category of human performance. Discusses benefits, including motivation, free thinking, wider access to information, and skills sharing. Offers guidelines for setting up partnerships, rules for effective collaboration, and expectations. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cooperation, Cooperative Planning

Kagan, Dona M. – Reading Improvement, 1988
Evaluates the effectiveness of a sixth grade experimental language arts program designed to teach higher-level thinking skills. Reports on different types of instruments for measuring higher-level thinking skills, including verbal and nonverbal tests of divergent thinking, a nonverbal test of flexible thinking, and a verbal divergent production…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Divergent Thinking