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Learning from peers: Beyond the rhetoric of positive results

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This paper extends previous efforts to provide clarity to the field of cooperative learning. Various theoretical approaches to learning from peers are described, and the implications of these approaches for key instructional choices by teachers are delineated. The primary perspectives of interest in this paper were social-behavioral approaches and cognitive approaches. Potential sources of problems are identified, and suggestions for averting such problems are provided. The role of the teacher within the cooperative classroom is also discussed.

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O'Donnell, A.M., O'Kelly, J. Learning from peers: Beyond the rhetoric of positive results. Educ Psychol Rev 6, 321–349 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02213419

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