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Hughes, H. Woodrow; Townley, Arthur J. – 1994
This paper presents findings from a study that explored students' perceptions of cooperative learning strategies used in educational administration classes. Specifically, the study sought to determine whether students perceived the strategies to be more effective than traditional methods in increasing their knowledge and retention and in improving…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning, Decision Making Skills
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DiSessa, Andra A.; And Others – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 1991
A cooperative activity involving eight sixth grade students over five days focused on inventing static representations of motion. In generating, critiquing and refining numerous representations, strong metarepresentational competence was found. An intricate blend of the children's conceptual and interactional skills, their interest in and sense of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Group Dynamics
Johnson, David W.; And Others – 1991
This monograph explores the current use in higher education of cooperative learning, the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other's learning. The opening section sets out to define cooperative learning, and to look at the history of the technique, its basic elements, types of cooperative…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Competition, Cooperative Learning