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ERIC Number: EJ643875
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
Similarity and Difference: Student Cooperation in Taiwanese and Australian Science Classrooms.
Wallace, John; Chou, Ching-Yang
Science Education, v85 n6 p694-711 Nov 2001
Examines the way in which students cooperate in Taiwanese and Australian science classrooms. Concludes that students from Taiwan and Australia have a range of understandings and interpretations about what it means to cooperate in science classrooms. There are complex connections between cooperative behavior, student academic ability, sex, and nationality which are best understood in socio-cultural terms. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Grade 9, Science Education, Sociocultural Patterns
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia; Taiwan