Incentives within cooperative learning
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1) The document discusses the use of incentives within cooperative learning environments in classrooms and analyzes their potential benefits and challenges. 2) It reviews literature that incentives can motivate students to help their groups succeed in order to attain personal goals, but concerns exist around control by individuals, assessing contributions, and peer pressure. 3) An upcoming quasi-experimental study expects incentives will create positive collaborative learning results and leave questions around what makes incentives effective and how individual performance is impacted.
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Incentives within cooperative learning
- 1. Incentives Within Cooperative Learning By: Tom McCutcheon Angela Rose Roberta St-Pierre
- 2. Introduction Use of incentives within cooperative learning Contexts of our research: Grade 6 Classroom Grade 11 English Grade 12 Global Geography Studies
- 3. Key Relevant Concepts Cooperative learning Incentive Group Selection Positive Group Interactions Negative Group Interactions
- 4. Literature Review Motivationalist Perspective - Robert E. Slavin “… cooperative incentive structures create a situation in which the only way group members can attain their own personal goals is if the group is successful.” (Slavin 2)
- 5. Critical Analysis Cooperative learning as a classroom reality Concerns Control by one Assessing individuals Peer Pressure to succeed Defining an incentive
- 6. Methodology Quasi-experimental Data Needs and Analysis: Spoken data Written data Observed data
- 7. Expected Results Incentive based collaborative learning creates positive results Stepping stone for future research: Effective incentives? Does individual performance increase with the use of incentives?
- 8. Discussion Questions Have you used incentives within your classroom? What strategies have you employed to foster positive group interactions? What are some of the challenges you have experienced with using cooperative learning?