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Peer reviewedStrough, JoNell; Berg, Cynthia A.; Meegan, Sean P. – Social Development, 2001
Examined how social aspects of a peer collaborative context related to differences in adolescents' interpretations of task and social problems while collaborating with peers in a naturalistic classroom setting. Found that salience of social problems, gender, and friendship were important for understanding project performance. Explored the value of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedCairns, Robert; Xie, Hongling; Leung, Man-Chi – New Directions for Child Development, 1998
Maintains that the study of peer relations has focused heavily on children's dyadic experiences. Argues that an analysis of children's experiences at the network or group level provides an equally compelling perspective on their relations within their peer system. Shows how the dynamics of peer networks determine social experiences and influence…
Descriptors: Child Development, Friendship, Group Dynamics, Group Experience
Download full textArya, Poonam – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2003
This descriptive study focuses on the understandings expressed by nine second graders about themselves as readers and looks at the direct experiences of the students in their reading groups. Findings suggest that these proficient and less proficient readers hold very different perceptions of themselves as readers and that these perceptions are…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Reading Achievement
Direct linkJohnson, Genevieve Marie – Educational Psychology, 2006
As part of required coursework, 112 students in an educational psychology course made asynchronous postings to online study groups. Students permitted their course marks to be used for research purposes and completed a questionnaire that assessed a range of psycho-educational characteristics as well as personal interpretations of the online study…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Psychology, Course Evaluation, Group Experience
London, Manuel; Sessa, Valerie I. – Human Resource Development Review, 2006
This article explores relationships between feedback, group learning, and performance. It considers how feedback to individuals and the group as a whole supports continuous group learning. Feedback source, purpose, clarity, and valence may affect perceptions, processing, and outcomes of feedback. How feedback is processed and used may be…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Lifelong Learning, Labor Force Development, Human Resources
Bertram, C. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2003
The School of Education, Training and Development at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg offers a Bachelor of Education (Honours) to practising teachers who already have a four year teaching diploma. The programme is delivered through interactive learning materials and Saturday tutorial sessions. However, interviews and a student survey seem…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Informal Education, Interviews, Network Analysis
Caldwell, Joyce Y.; Davis, Jamie D.; Du Bois, Barbara; Echo-Hawk, Holly; Erickson, Jill Shepard; Goins, R. Turner; Hill, Calvin; Hillabrant, Walter; Johnson, Sharon R.; Kendall, Elizabeth; Keemer, Kelly; Manson, Spero M.; Marshall, Catherine A.; Running Wolf, Paulette; Santiago, Rolando L.; Schacht, Robert; Stone, Joseph B. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2005
This article describes the collective experience of a multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, and program evaluators who support appropriate research and evaluation methods in working with Native peoples. Our experience underlines the critical importance of culture in understanding and conducting research with the diverse…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Alaska Natives
Price, Elsa C. – 1991
Community college students arrive with a diversity of learning styles, study skills, and test anxiety levels. The study described here was conducted to determine whether activity grouping of students according to learning style (incorporating at least two different styles in each group) contributes to improved student performance. In the spring of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, College Students, Community Colleges
Ediger, Marlow – 1985
The approximately 15,000 Hutterites living in the United States and Canada have a long history of development. Their founder, Jacob Hutter, became a martyr in 1536 in what is now Czechoslovakia. From Czechoslovakia, the Hutterites moved to the Ukraine in 1770 and to the United States in 1874. Hutterite philosophy emphasizes both modern and…
Descriptors: Collective Settlements, Cooperatives, Cultural Traits, Educational Philosophy
Knapp, Clifford E. – 1988
Designed to provide practical assistance in implementing outdoor learning experiences for youth and adults, this book helps professionals plan their leadership development programs and create more humane climates in a variety of outdoor settings. The book treats the three topics of self-knowledge, human communities, and outdoor-environmental…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Community, Environmental Education
Stevens, Robert J.; And Others – 1987
Two studies evaluated a comprehensive cooperative learning approach to elementary reading and writing instruction, called Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC). The subjects in the first study, 461 third- and fourth-grade students in a suburban Maryland school district, were divided into experimental and control groups, with the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Elementary Education, Group Experience, Instructional Effectiveness
Scheuermann, Tom – 1981
Guidelines for establishing and implementing residence hall unit agreements with college students are presented, based on the experience of the University of Maryland, College Park. These agreements or social contracts are drawn up by a floor/unit of residents and are put in writing to define for that unit the acceptable range of behavior in a…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, College Environment, College Housing, College Students
Snell, Blanche E. – 1976
Designed to assist teachers whose classes will participate in a residential experience at one of the Conservation Field Centres sponsored by the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, this pre-planning guide provides necessary details about the underlying philosophy of the program and the roles and responsibilities of the visiting…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conservation Education, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy
Downing, Bruce T.; Dwyer, Sharon – 1981
This study examines some aspects of the interaction of one Hmong family with the English-speaking community to determine what sort of language contact situations they encounter and what means they use to communicate in those situations. Observations revealed that English language use outside of the classroom was limited. The subjects did not seek…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Adults
SLOTKIN, AARON H.; AND OTHERS – 1964
IN THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS, DR. JOSEPH LORETAN DEFINED "TO INTEGRATE" AS "TO MAKE WHOLE OR TO RENEW." THE WORK OF INTEGRATION CAN BE SEEN AS A RENEWAL OF FAITH IN THE MOST BASIC TENETS OF AMERICA. IN APPROACHING THE QUESTION OF HOW THE CURRICULUM CAN PROMOTE INTEGRATION, HE DEVELOPED SEVERAL PROPOSITIONS. CURRICULUM BUILDERS AND…
Descriptors: Citizen Role, Citizenship Responsibility, Civil Rights, Community Involvement
