Teaching Strategies: Group Work and Team Work
Cooperative learning involves having students work together to maximize their own and one another’s learning (Johnson, Johnson & Smith, 1991). This page provides resources about cooperative learning, designing effective small group activities, and guidance for creating and sustaining effective student learning groups in engineering and lab courses.
CRLT Resources on Cooperative
Learning, Group Work, and Teamwork
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/clgt.php
A comprehensive list of resources on the effectiveness of cooperative learning, group work, teamwork, and best practices.
The collaborative research model: Student Learning Team in Undergraduate Research (University of Oregon)
http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/crmodel/index.html
Cooperative Learning: Effective teamwork for engineering classrooms (UCLA)
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/informs/DC/96/smith/smith1.htm
CRLT Lab. guidebook
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/lab_guidebook.php
Designing Effective
Group Activities (University of Oklahoma)
http://www.ou.edu/idp/tips/ideas/groupact.html
The Laboratory in Science Education: Foundations for the Twenty-First Century (University of Campinas, Brazil)
http://gpquae.iqm.unicamp.br/gtexperimentacao.pdf
Students Working in
Small Groups (Acrobat Document Download) (Stanford University)
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Newsletter/cooperative.pdf
Team work and group work (Michigan Engineering)
http://www.engin.umich.edu/teaching/assess_and_improve/handbook/direct/teamwork.html