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Harlow, Jason J. B.; Harrison, David M.; Meyertholen, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
We have studied the types of student teams that are most effective for collaborative learning in a large freshman university physics course. We compared teams in which the students were all of roughly equal ability to teams with a mix of student abilities, we compared teams with three members to teams with four members, and we examined teams with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning
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Parcel, Toby L.; Cook, Karen S. – Sociometry, 1977
The relationship between a group's power and prestige or status hierarchy and group members' patterns of reward allocation was investigated. The addition of evidence concerning actual task performance results in the alignment of reward and status rankings and encourages the use of distribution rules stressing equity as opposed to equality.…
Descriptors: Ability, Females, Group Dynamics, Group Structure
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Savin-Williams, Ritch C. – Child Development, 1979
Behavioral observations and sociometric methods revealed a stable dominance hierarchy in eight groups of 12- to 14-year-old male and female adolescents at a summer camp. (JMB)
Descriptors: Ability, Adolescents, Athletics, Group Status
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Tziner, Aharon E. – Small Group Behavior, 1986
Two social psychological theories--similarity theory and equity theory--are employed to elucidate the relationship between group members' abilities and group performance on tasks involving high levels of interdependence. Contrasting hypotheses are drawn regarding specific ability compositions that should evoke performance above or below the simple…
Descriptors: Ability, Foreign Countries, Group Behavior, Group Structure