Heather Holmes's List: Cooperative Learning

• Cooperative learning groups present unique and important opportunities  and benefits for instruction, assessment, evaluation, and reporting.  Using cooperative learning groups in assessment provides the  following advantages:
• Make assessment practices an integrated whole by  implementing procedures before, during, and after instruction
• Use cooperative learning groups to help individualize  the educational goals, learning processes, assessment procedures,  and reporting procedures for gifted and disabled students.
• When cooperative learning is used in instruction and assessment,  there are two levels of assessment and evaluation--the individual  and the group. Individual assessment is more frequent than group  assessment, but both are important. Since the purpose of cooperative  learning groups is to make each member a stronger individual  in his or her own right, a pattern to classroom learning is created  where students learn in a cooperative group, individually demonstrate  their learning, then debrief the learning in their cooperative  group

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• Why  use Cooperative Learning?

   

  Research has shown that  cooperative learning techniques:

   
   
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    promote student  learning and academic achievement

   
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    increase student  retention

   
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    enhance student  satisfaction with their learning experience

   
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    help students develop  skills in oral communication

   
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    develop students'  social skills

   
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    promote student  self-esteem

   
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    help to promote  positive race relations