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Team-Assisted Individualization

Combining Cooperative Learning and Individualized Instruction in Mathematics

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Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn

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The past decade has seen an important and dramatic change in research on cooperative incentive and task structures (see Slavin, 1983a), in which individuals work in small groups and are rewarded based on the group’s performance. Before the early 1970s, this research took place primarily in the social psychological laboratory, or in short-term field experiments in locations set up to resemble the laboratory. The systematic use of instructional methods involving cooperation among students was rarely seen, and when it did occur, the methods used tended to be drawn directly from the laboratory (see, for example, Johnson & Johnson, 1974; Slavin, 1977).

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  1. Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218, USA

    Robert E. Slavin

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  1. Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Robert Slavin

  2. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Shlomo Sharan

  3. University of California, Riverside, California, USA

    Spencer Kagan

  4. Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

    Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz

  5. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

    Clark Webb

  6. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

    Richard Schmuck

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Slavin, R.E. (1985). Team-Assisted Individualization. In: Slavin, R., Sharan, S., Kagan, S., Hertz-Lazarowitz, R., Webb, C., Schmuck, R. (eds) Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3650-9_7

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