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Cooperative peer interaction versus individual competition and individualistic efforts: Effects on the acquisition of cognitive reasoning strategies.

Linda Skon, +2 more
- 01 Feb 1981 - 
- Vol. 73, Iss: 1, pp 83-92
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This article is published in Journal of Educational Psychology.The article was published on 1981-02-01. It has received 129 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognitive development.

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An Educational Psychology Success Story: Social Interdependence Theory and Cooperative Learning

TL;DR: More than 1,200 research studies have been conducted in the past 11 decades on cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts as mentioned in this paper, and the results from these studies have validated, modified, refined, and extended the theory.

Cooperative learning methods: A meta-analysis.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the research on the effectiveness in increasing achievement of the methods of cooperative learning used in schools can be found in this paper, where 164 studies investigating eight cooperative learning methods were found to have a significant positive impact on student achievement.
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Learning from human tutoring

TL;DR: Surprisingly, students learned just as effectively even when tutors were suppressed from giving explanations and feedback, and their learning in the interactive style of tutoring is attributed to construction from deeper and a greater amount of scaffolding episodes, as well as their greater effort to take control of their own learning by reading more.
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New developments in social interdependence theory.

TL;DR: The authors critically analyze the new developments resulting from extensive research on, and wide-scale applications of, social interdependence theory.
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Conflict in the Classroom: Controversy And Learning

TL;DR: In this paper, a teacher is presenting a lesson on the United States Congress and the students are discussing in small groups the reasons why citizens want to be representatives in Congress, one student says the major reason is wanting to help your neighbors and your country, and quotes Roger Mudd (CBS News, December 24, 1976) that a representative in Congress receives more than $400,000 per year in salary and benefits.