What is/is not a Coop. Effort
Types of Cooperative Learning
Basic Elements of Cooperation
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In a pseudo learning group, students are assigned to work together but have no interest in working together, believe they will be evaluated by being ranked highest to lowest performer, and

hide information from each other and attempt to confuse and mislead each other, and mistrust each other.
100
What are the types of cooperative learning?
Informal cooperative learning, formal cooperative learning, and cooperative base groups
100
What are the 5 essential elements of interdependence?
positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face promotive interaction, social skills, group processing
100
Are teachers the only ones who need to carefully structure cooperation?
No.
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Traditional classroom learning students are assigned to work together and accept that they must work together. Assignments are structured to grade students as individuals, not as a group. They seek each other's information, but 
have no motivation to teach what they know to group-mates, and some students may seek a free-ride on the efforts of group-mates who feel exploited and do less.
200
Students working together for one class period or several weeks to achieve shared learning goals and complete specific tasks and assignments, are characteristics of what type of cooperative learning?
Formal cooperative learning
200
What can you do to strengthen positive independence?
joint rewards, divided resources, and complementary roles
200
"All students perform higher academically than they would if they worked alone" is true of which group?

Cooperative learning group

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In a cooperative learning group, students work together to accomplish shared goals, discuss material with each other and help one another understand it, and 
check performance regularly to ensure everyone is contributing and learning
300
Long-term, heterogeneous cooperative learning groups of 3-4 members with stable membership, describes what type of cooperative learning?
Cooperative base groups
300
Common ways to structure individual accountability include . . .
(a) giving an individual test to each student (b) randomly selecting one student's product to represent the entire group or (c) having each student explain what they have learned to a classmate
300
A high performance cooperative learning group . . .
outperforms all reasonable expectations given its membership, has a high level of commitment among its members to the groups success, and is a level of development that few groups ever achieve.
400
"Students would achieve more if they were working alone" is true of which type of group?
Pseudo learning group
400
The use of base groups tends to . . . 
improve attendance, personalize school experience, and improve the quality and quantity of learning.
400

Accountability to peers, ability to influence each other's reasoning and conclusions, social modeling, social support, and interpersonal rewards all increase as 

the face-to-face interactions among group members increase.
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What does structuring students cooperatively, competitively, and individualistically result in?
cooperatively - students interacting in ways that promote each other's success

competitively - students interacting in ways that oppose each other's success

individualistically - no interaction among students

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"Hard working and conscientious students would perform higher if they worked alone" is true of which type of group?
Traditional classroom learning group
500
Cooperative learning groups may be used to . . .
teach specific content, to ensure active cognitive processing of information during a lecture or demonstration, and to provide ling term support and assistance for academic progress.
500
Understanding these five basic elements and developing skills in structuring them allows teachers to . . . 
(a) adapt cooperative learning to their unique circumstances, needs, and students (b) fine tune their use of cooperative learning, and (c) prevent and solve problems students have in working together.
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Cooperative learning is . . . 
the instructional use of small groups in which students work together to maximize their own and each other's learning.
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