Gifted Education and Cooperative Learning: A Miss or a Match?

Johnson, Johnson, and Smith (1991) synthesized more than 375 studies on the effect of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts on student achievement and productivity and concluded that cooperative learning results in more higher level reasoning, more frequent generation of new ideas an...

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Published in:	Gifted child today magazine Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 19 - 23
Main Author:	Huss, John A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-10-2006 Sage Publications, Inc SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC Prufrock Press Inc
Subjects:	Ability Grouping Academically Gifted Conflict Cooperative Education Cooperative Learning Education Educational Research Educational Resources Elementary schools Gifted children Gifted education Group work in education Heterogeneous Grouping Homogeneous Grouping Individualized Instruction Instructional Effectiveness Learning Strategies Teaching Teaching Methods Team learning approach in education United States
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Summary:	Johnson, Johnson, and Smith (1991) synthesized more than 375 studies on the effect of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts on student achievement and productivity and concluded that cooperative learning results in more higher level reasoning, more frequent generation of new ideas and solutions, and greater transfer of what is learned within one situation to another. Perhaps it will likewise serve as encouragement to fellow educators who work with gifted students and are enchanted by cooperative learning, yet hesitant to remove the training wheels.
ISSN:	1076-2175 2162-951X
DOI:	10.4219/gct-2006-13