Peer Collaboration on a Nonverbal Reasoning Task by Urban, Minority Students.

Samaha, Nancy Vanderhey; De Lisi, Richard

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ERIC Number: EJ625771

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Peer Collaboration on a Nonverbal Reasoning Task by Urban, Minority Students.

Samaha, Nancy Vanderhey; De Lisi, Richard

Journal of Experimental Education, v69 n1 p5-21 Fall 2000

Studied collaborative reasoning in 86 seventh-grade minority students in an urban low-income school. Students who collaborated had higher percentages of fully correct explanations on the posttest than those who worked alone. Collaborative experiences were beneficial for reasoning about unfamiliar, moderately difficult, nonverbal problems. (SLD)

Descriptors: Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Low Income Groups, Minority Groups, Nonverbal Tests, Pretests Posttests, Thinking Skills, Urban Schools, Urban Youth

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue titled "Learning with Peers: Multiple Perspectives on Collaboration."