Psychological Processes and Communication

Effects of cooperation on spelling achievement at three age levels (Grades 2, 4, and 6)

“…Since children of similar ages are likely to be operating in one another's proximal zone of development, collaboration among children should promote cognitivegrowth. Following Vygotsky's view, Lomov (1978) states that an essential aspect of cooperation is that students give one another instructions and correct one another, which enables them to discover weak points in their reasoning strategies and to adjust them. Similarly, Harris and Sherman (1973) postulate that students develop higher quality reasoning strategies by exchanging information.…”

Group problem-solving among teachers: A case study of how to improve a colleague’s teaching

“…Past research has shown the different roles that group problem solvers assumed to reduce individual workloads and coordinate their efforts systematically (Dashiell, 1935;Kelly & Thibaut, 1954;Shaw, 1932). Lomov (1978), Kol'tsova (1978), Inagaki (1981), Inagaki andHatano (1968, 1977) all found that the coordination of group effort produced superior performance on the members' conceptualization ability in academic studies. Barron (2000) identified three major dimensions of group interaction to coordinate problem-solving efforts on constituting feasible solutions.…”

Effects of cooperation and feedback by fellow-pupils on spelling-achievement

“…Lomov (1978) for instance states that ah essential aspect of cooperatJon is that pupils gire each other instructions and correetions, which enable them to discover weak points in their reasoning strategies and adjust them. Skon,Johnson & Johnson (198I) also postulate that pupils develop their reasoning strategies by exchanging information.…”