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Likes Attract: Students Self-Sort in a Classroom by Gender, Demography, and Academic Characteristics
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Direct linkFreeman, Scott; Theobald, Roddy; Crowe, Alison J.; Wenderoth, Mary Pat – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Although a growing literature has documented the effectiveness of informal group work during class sessions, virtually no data exist on which students are collaborating. As a result, instructors rarely know whether students are self-sorting in ways that maximize learning. This article explores which undergraduate students worked together on each…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Heterogeneous Grouping
Dick, Robert C. – 1989
It is proposed that, whenever feasible, foreign college students be grouped for English-as-a-Second-Language instruction according to their personal oral communication needs and academic objectives rather than mainstreamed into courses with a predominance of native-English-speaking students. These students' needs, it is argued, can be met more…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Apprehension, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
