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Research on Small Group Learning

• A professional development school partnership: Conflict and collaboration
  The Professional Develpment School (PDS) is one of the most prominent, compelling, and recent models of teacher education reform. For decades efforts have been made to reform the U.S.
• Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking
  A research study comparing the effects of individual learning with collaborative learning.
• Elevation Educational Consulting
  Works with individual teachers, schools, districts to evaluate and improve literacy programs and instruction.
• Research on Cooperative Learning and Achievement
  Robert E. Slavin Johns Hopkins University October 1995.
• Talk About Text: Changes in Content and Authority Structure in Peer Response Groups
  Talk About Text: Changes in Content and Authority Structures in Peer Response Groups (PDF) by Sarah J. McCarthy The literature on peer groups in writing suggests a variety of purposes for peer groupsdepending on teachers' and students' goals: (a) responding to writing, (b) thinking collaboratively,(c) writing collaboratively, and (d) editing writing.