Well-executed cooperative learning tends to
a. promote good peer relations as students work together.
b. undermine peer relations because some students do all the work.
c. improve achievement of high achievers but not low achievers.
d. reduce peer status of rejected students, who fight during group work.
ANSWER: a
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