Increasing explanatory behaviour, problem-solving, and reasoning within classes using cooperative group work

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn M. Gillies ◽  
Michele Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Behaviour Problem ◽  
Cooperative Group

Cooperative Problem Solving: But what about Grading?

1992 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Diana Lambdin Kroll ◽  
Joanna O. Masingila ◽  
Sue Tinsley Mau
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Cooperative Group ◽  
Cooperative Problem Solving ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Problem Solvers

Do your students use cooperative-group work when they are involved in mathematical investigations and problem solving? If you answered yes, you are in good company. More and more teachers these days are finding that working together helps students become better problem solvers.

Grading Cooperative Problem Solving

1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (8) ◽  
pp. 619-627
Author(s):  
Diana Lambdin Kroll ◽  
Joanne O. Masingila ◽  
Sue Tinstey Mau
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Cooperative Group ◽  
Cooperative Groups ◽  
Cooperative Problem Solving ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Problem Solvers

Do your students use cooperative-group work when they are involved in mathematical investigations and problem solving? Many teachers these days answer “yes” because they find that working together helps students become better problem solvers. Teachers who encourage their students to work problems cooperatively, however, frequently do not grade the results of those cooperative sessions, probably because using cooperative groups for classwork is a lot easier than assigning grades for that work.

Entrepreneurship Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-132
Author(s):  
Francisco Banha ◽  
Sandra Saúde ◽  
Adão Jesus Gonçalves Flores
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Work Planning ◽  
Creative Spirit ◽  
Common World ◽  
Planning Division

This chapter is based on the assumptions, methodologies, and results of two intermunicipal entrepreneurship education projects carried out in Portugal, specifically in Dão Lafões and Baixo Alentejo regions. It analyzes and demonstrates how, in formal and/or non-formal educational contexts, developing work methodologies that promote entrepreneurship consolidate competencies of creativity, proactivity, group work, planning, division of tasks, focus on problem solving, which are fundamental to full and active citizenship. The projects undertaken, supported on learning by doing methodology involved different agents of the communities beyond the schools, are and/or have been valuable contributions to the formation of more autonomous and proactive citizens with a democratic, pluralistic, critical, and creative spirit. Entrepreneurship is a competence for life. Taking initiative, mobilizing others, and getting them on board with ideas and/or solutions to problems are useful skills for daily life in our society and contribute to the sustainability of our common world.

The Organization of Organizations: Issues for Next-Generation Office IT

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Hutchison ◽  
Duska Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Group Work ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Group Decision Support ◽  
Group Decision Support Systems ◽  
Cooperative Group ◽  
Knowledge Based Systems ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Formal Modelling ◽  
Knowledge Based

The emerging new breed of IS (group decision support systems and decision simulation, multimedia, next-generation knowledge-based systems, deductive databases and DBMSs, and such like, together with the evolving networking capabilities) will have a more significant impact on the way people work than have ‘conventional’ IT products. This will have implications for what one might call the ‘cognitive style’ of the user interaction. This paper describes further a view of the organization of organizations that has already been sketched briefly elsewhere (Hutchison & Rosenberg, 1993; Hutchison, 1994), and proposes a strategy for the formal modelling of cooperative group work.

scholarly journals Engaging Students in Art Beyond the K-12 School Environment

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Ducharme
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Group Work ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cooperative Group ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
K 12

<p>This purpose of this thesis is to investigate a unit of instruction for a mural project with a community organization.</p> <p>The question I sought to answer through this research was: How can I design a unit of instruction in collaboration with a local organization that will potentially engage students in a community-based work of art while also promoting a sense of community among the students?</p> <p>Though this thesis research, I learned to collaborate with an organization to create a hypothetical unit of instruction. Also, I wanted to discover how I can create a learning experience that is engaging and personally meaningful to students. The unit of study that I created is inquiry-based towards sparking the interest of students through open-ended questioning. I designed lessons that involved cooperative group work where students would work towards a common goal. This thesis will show that cooperative group work has the potential to develop a sense of community among students while meeting the needs of a community organization.</p>

scholarly journals Different stories of group work: Exploring problem solving in engineering education

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Berge ◽  
Anna T. Danielsson ◽  
Åke Ingerman
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Engineering Physics

This article aims to further the understanding of group work in higher education, primarily in science.This is done through an empirical investigation of problem solving in small groups. Position theory isused as an analytic tool for describing the complex and dynamic processes of group work, focusing simultaneously on the physics content and the student community and how they constitute each other. We analysed four video-recorded sessions with students from two Master’s programs, Engineering Physics and Bioengineering, respectively. The students addressed two introductory mechanics problems.The analysis resulted in a characterisation in terms of seven ‘storylines’ of two different kinds. These are argued to reflect different aspects of engineering student communities, where one kind of storylines captures ways of approaching the problems and the other kind exemplifies boundary work involved in the constitution of communities.

Integrating Manipulatives and Computers in Problem-Solving Experiences

1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
Sue Brown
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Mathematics Standards ◽  
Good Mathematics Instruction ◽  
K 12

In 1980, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics stated that “problem solving must be the focus of school mathematics.” In 1989 the Council reaffirmed that belief with the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (Standards). Standard 1 for grades K–12 is “Mathematics as Problem Solving.” The Standards also asserts that “a computer should be available in every classroom for demonstration purposes, and every student should have access to a computer for individual and group work.” Also according to the Standards, “manipulative materials are necessary for good mathematics instruction.” In a typical classroom, problem solving may be taught, manipulative materials may be used, or students may be working at a computer. These functions, however, are usually completed as disjoint activities. Integrating these activities is possible, and this article illustrates how it can be done.

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