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Cravens, Xiu; Drake, Timothy A.; Goldring, Ellen; Schuermann, Patrick – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the viability of implementing a protocol-guided model designed to provide structure and focus for teacher collaboration from Shanghai in today's US public schools. The authors examine whether the new model, Teacher Peer Excellence Group (TPEG), fosters the desired key features of productive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Instructional Improvement, Peer Groups
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Martin Pinquart; Jens P. Pfeiffer – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
The investigators compared the perceived attainment of developmental tasks by 181 German adolescents with hearing loss and 254 peers without hearing loss. The adolescents with hearing loss were attending special schools for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. On average, the two groups perceived similar levels of success across the assessed…
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Adolescents, Special Schools, Deafness
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Matta, Vic; Luce, Thom; Ciavarro, Gina – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
Creation of teams in professional and student contexts has been well researched and written about. The research landscape can be divided into instructor selected and student selected teams, both of which have advantages and disadvantages. The purpose of this paper is to combine the two techniques for creating teams in an effort to maximize the…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Academic Ability, Student Attitudes, Peer Groups
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Zeichner, Kenneth M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1980
A 22-item instrument (My Classmates) was developed to measure fifth-sixth graders' perceptions of their peer relationships, and administered to 621 students. The instrument's reliability and validity were supported. Group membership was found to be related to certain student characteristics. (The questionnaire is appended). (GDC)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Group Membership, Intermediate Grades, Peer Groups