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Download full textWebb, Noreen M.; Farivar, Sydney H.; Mastergeorge, Ann M. – 2001
The past 20 years have seen a tremendous increase in the use of peer-directed collaborative group work both in classroom instruction and in assessments to give students an opportunity to learn from each other. Using examples drawn from a program of peer learning in middle school mathematics, this paper identifies a set of helping behaviors that…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Instruction, Help Seeking, Helping Relationship
Peer reviewedWebb, Noreen M.; Nemer, Kariane Mari; Zuniga, Stephen – American Educational Research Journal, 2002
Studied the effects of group ability composition (homogeneous versus heterogeneous) on group processes and outcomes for high-ability students completing science assessments. Results for 83 high ability students show the quality of group functioning serves as the strongest predictor of high-ability students' performance and explained much of the…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Group Dynamics, Group Instruction, High Achievement
Peer reviewedWebb, Noreen M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Investigated group interaction and mathematical errors of 11th-grade students working individually and in four-person heterogeneous ability groups. Averaging over all types of errors, high-ability students did best in individual conditioning, low-ability students did best in group conditioning, and medium-ability students did equally well in both.…
Descriptors: Ability, Error Patterns, Group Dynamics, Group Instruction
Webb, Noreen M.; Welner, Mari; Zuniga, Stephen – 2001
This study investigated the effects of group ability composition (homogeneous versus heterogeneous) on group processes and outcomes for high ability students completing science performance assessments. Participants were 99 seventh and eighth graders from 9 classes in 2 schools. The results show that group ability composition does not have…
Descriptors: Ability, Group Instruction, Heterogeneous Grouping, High Achievement
