Jacqueline Chaney’s 2nd grade class buzzes with activity all day long, and a good chunk of it takes place in groups. By just the second month of school, the 7- and 8-year-olds move effortlessly in and ...

Team and group collaboration is an increasingly important component to many workplaces, including brainstorming ideas, co-writing reports, and working together to solve complex problems. In this ...

The Ethiopian Journal of Education, Vol. 41, No. 1 (June 2021), pp. 153-197 (45 pages) The purposes of this classroom-based research were to assess the benefit of a cooperative-group methodology that ...

When students engage in group work that is intentionally designed to support cooperative learning, they develop interpersonal and critical thinking skills while practicing accountability behaviors ...

I have a suggestion for the author of the essay “I’m a Student. Here’s Why Group Work Feels So Unfair ” (Nov. 11, 2022). In Don Meichenbaum’s and my book, Nurturing Independent Learners (Brookline ...

A few years ago, we hired an adjunct professor to teach a three-hour night class. After a few weeks, he came to us in frustration because he couldn’t get the students to discuss the material, and when ...