AC Educator: Cooperative student activities as learning devices.

Wenzel, Thomas J.

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“…This study further confirmed the findings of earlier researches with regards to the clear differences between the lecture method or "factory model" and collaborative learning. While traditional methods have little measurable effects on educational achievements of students (Hofstein, Lunetta, 1982), collaborative learning improves students' academic achievement, helps them develop better reasoning and critical thinking skills, ability to transfer prior knowledge to new situations, reduces stress levels, promotes more positive attitudes toward chemistry and improves student commitment and retention (Wenzel, 2007(Wenzel, , 2000(Wenzel, & 1998.…”

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Improving Studentsâ€™ Performance in Stoichiometry through the Implementation of Collaborative Learning

Opara¹

2014

JEVR

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The study was designed to foster the implementation of collaborative learning in stoichiometry among secondary school students. It was hypothesized that students who were exposed to collaborative learning will not perform significantly better than those exposed to lecture method. The design of the study was a pretest â€“ posttest non-equivalent control group design. Two hundred and eighty seven Senior Secondary class 2 students from Special Science Schools in Anambra State, Nigeria participated in the study. The reliability of the instrument, Stoichiometry Achievement Test (SAT) was established using split-half reliability coefficient. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the null hypothesis after obtaining the mean of the pretest and posttest scores. The results revealed that collaborative learning significantly enhanced studentsâ€™ performance in stoichiometry, as students who were exposed to collaborative learning outperformed those exposed to lecture method. Based on the findings of the study educational practices in Nigeria were urged to promote and implement collaborative learning and decrease on the structure of transmission model.

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Improving Studentsâ€™ Performance in Stoichiometry through the Implementation of Collaborative Learning

Opara¹

2014

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“…To begin, as we noted previously, decades of research support the benefits of group learning. In addition, research, often from precollege educational settings, suggests that racially mixed cooperative learning groups increase learning and foster more positive interactions among people with different backgrounds (Johnson et al 1983;Slavin 1991;Wenzel 2000).…”

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Using Racial and Class Differences in Infant Mortality to Teach about White Privilege: A Cooperative Group Activity

Cebulak

Zipp

2018

Teach Sociol

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A considerable amount of research across the past several decades has documented the emergence of a new racial ideology of “color-blindness” as well as evidence that white college students have difficulty recognizing the racial privileges that are obscured by this color-blindness. To address this, we developed a cooperative group White Privilege Activity that used racial and class differences in infant mortality to help students recognize the existence of white privilege. Fielding this in two mass lecture sections of Introductory Sociology, we found that exposure to content on white privilege along with the utilization of cooperative learning group exercises promoted a greater understanding of white privilege for both white and nonwhite students. Furthermore, we found that the racial composition of cooperative learning groups had a significant impact on white students’ racial privilege attitudes.

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“…Classroom environments can be characterized as competitive, individualistic, or cooperative, with the first two far more common than the last (26). Competitive classroom environments do not generally reward students who are gentle, altruistic, and able to put the welfare of others over themselves (27)(28)(29).…”

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Wenzel

2003

Anal. Chem.

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AC Educator: Cooperative student activities as learning devices.

Abstract: a c e d u c a t o rLearning needs to be conceived of as something a learner does, not something that is done to a learner (1).

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Improving Studentsâ€™ Performance in Stoichiometry through the Implementation of Collaborative Learning

Improving Studentsâ€™ Performance in Stoichiometry through the Implementation of Collaborative Learning

Using Racial and Class Differences in Infant Mortality to Teach about White Privilege: A Cooperative Group Activity

Peer Reviewed: Controlling the Climate in Your Classroom

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