Abstract
Research on peer mediated learning shows that students learn through interactions with classmates, but little is known about the skills that children need to be productive learning partners, and educators lack programs for teaching children how to collaborate effectively with classmates. Described in this article is a program of research that was undertaken to address these needs by: (1) empirically creating a collaborative skills curriculum for grade school children, and (2) developing, refining, and implementing a class-wide program for improving grade school children’s social and scholastic skills for collaborative learning activities (i.e., the 4R-SUCCESS program).
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Forschung zum Peer-vermittelten Lernen zeigt, dass Schüler durch Interaktionen mit Klassenkameraden lernen, aber nur wenig über die Fähigkeiten bekannt ist, die Kinder benötigen, um produktive Lernpartner zu sein, und Pädagogen fehlen Programme um die Kinder zu lehren, wie man effektiv mit Klassenkameraden zusammenarbeitet. In diesem Artikel ist ein Forschungsprogramm beschrieben, das unternommen wurde, um auf diese Erfordernisse einzugehen durch: 1) Schaffung eines empirisch kollaborativen Fähigkeiten Curriculums für Grundschulkinder und 2) die Entwicklung, Präzisierung und Implementierung eines klassenweiten Programms zur Verbesserung der sozialen und schulischen Fähigkeiten von Grundschulkindern für kollaborative Lernaktivitäten (d.h., das 4R-SUCCESS-Programm).
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Portions of this chapter and many of the empirical studies cited here in that were published by the authors have been prepared with support from the National Institutes of Health (1-RO1MH-49223, 2-RO1MH-49223, R01HD-045906), the National Science Foundation (Grant #0318462), and the Institute for Educational Studies (R305A090386). Special appreciation is expressed to the children, parents, teachers, and schools that participated in these studies, and to those who assisted with data collection and analyses.
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Ladd, G., Kochenderfer-Ladd, B., Ettekal, I. et al. The 4R-SUCCESS program: promoting children’s social and scholastic skills in dyadic classroom activities. Gruppendyn Organisationsberat 45, 25–44 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11612-013-0231-1
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