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Cooperative Learning: Enhancing Individual Learning Through Positive Group Process
- Article from:
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Annual Review of Nursing Education
- Article date:
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January 1, 2006
- Author:
- Stiles, Anne Scott
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Copyright informationCopyright Springer Publishing Company 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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"I hate working in groups! I always end up being the one that does all the work."
"Group work is awful! There is always at least one person who never contributes to the project. It's so frustrating!"
"It doesn't seem fair that the one person in the group who did no work gets the same grade that the rest of us made. We worked hard."
How many times have you heard these remarks from students? While the concept of group work seems so intuitively appealing, the actual process and outcomes often exhibit less than optimal results in terms of student learning. Often the outcome is anger and frustration among students instead of excitement over new knowledge and awareness! So what is a teacher to ...