Students learning together

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Students learning together
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• Not using cooperative or collaborative learning
  at least sometimes constitutes educational
  malpractice.
• Overstated paraphrase from an address by
• Thomas Angelo

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Great Big Guiding Principles

• Positive Interdependence
• Individual Accountability

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• 2. Good Practice Develops Reciprocity and
  Cooperation Among Students
• Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team
  effort than a solo race. Good learning, like good
  work, is collaborative and social, not
  competitive and isolated. Working with others
  often increases involvement in learning. Sharing
  ones ideas and responding to others improves
  thinking and deepens understanding.
• AAHE 7 Principles of Effective

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Group formation

• Self selecting

• Random assignment
• Deliberately and heterogenously
• But dont create isolates

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Length of Life of Group

• All semester
• A big hunk of the semester
• A class period
• A few minutes

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Size of group

• Usually 5 to 7

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Drop outs and non-attendees

• Start large
• Assign chronic non-attendees to the extra spot.

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Grading

• Emphasis on individual accomplishments.
• (Maybe) Some small amount on group products or
  individual contributions.