Describe the effectiveness of cooperative learning, including both academic and nonacademic benefits.
What will be an ideal response?
The answers should describe academic benefits over competitive and individual approaches. Cooperative learning provides greater benefits for female students and ethnic minority students but not for gifted and high-achieving students. It enhances self-esteem, motivation, and peer relationships.
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a. True b. False
The study of relationships between objects, places or events is called:
a. measurement. b. topology. c. motion geometry. d. symmetry.
What best describes the ideal relationship of the school to the community?
a. There should be links between the curriculum and the community. b. Teachers should deemphasize the community, especially in high-crime areas. c. Teachers should use mock elections. d. Teachers should realize that the problems of the community upset students and that teachers should avoid controversy about these issues.
Which of the following is an available campus resource?
a. financial aid b. technology c. health services d. all of the answer choices