This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly.promote learning, empirical research testing its effect on learning remains relatively scarce. The goal of the present research is to test the hypothesis that a jigsaw intervention would yield a meaningful effect size (d = .40) on learning outcomes, in 5 randomized experiments conducted among sixth-graders. The jigsaw intervention was compared to an "individualistic" (N Exp 1 = 252; N Exp 2 = 313) or a "teaching as usual" (N Exp 3A = 110; N Exp 3B = 74; N Exp 3C = 101) approach on the same pedagogical content. Across the 5 experiments, we did not find empirical support for this hypothesis. Internal meta-analytic estimates (ES = .00, 95% CI [À.10, .09]) showed that, overall, the jigsaw intervention did not produce the expected positive effects on learning. The reasons why jigsaw classrooms may not always prove beneficial for learning are discussed.
Educational Impact and Implications StatementAlthough the "jigsaw classroom" is a relatively popular cooperative method (Aronson & Patnoe, 2011) which has often been presented as an efficient way to promote learning, empirical research testing its effect on learning remains relatively scarce and debated (Roseth et al., 2019). Poor evidence can be misleading for teachers. Across 5 randomized experiments conducted on French sixth-graders, the present research showed that the "jigsaw classroom" did not yield any significant gain in learning outcomes compared to "individualistic" or "teaching as usual" conditions of learning. The reasons why the jigsaw intervention did not produce the expected positive effects on learning are discussed.
There is growing evidence in the literature of positive relationships between socio-emotional competencies and school performance. Several hypotheses have been used to explain how these variables may be related to school performance. In this paper, we explored the role of various school adjustment variables in the relationship between interpersonal socio-emotional competencies and school grades, using a weighted network approach. This network approach allowed us to analyze the structure of interrelations between each variable, pointing to both central and mediatory school and socio-emotional variables within the network. Self-reported data from around 3,400 French vocational high school students were examined. This data included a set of interpersonal socio-emotional competencies (cognitive and affective empathy, socio-emotional behaviors and collective orientation), school adjustment measures (adaptation to the institution, school anxiety, self-regulation at school, and self-perceived competence at school) as well as grades in mathematics and French language. The results showed that self-regulation at school weighted the most strongly on the whole network, and was the most important mediatory pathway. More specifically, self-regulation mediated the relationships between interpersonal socio-emotional competencies and school grades.
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