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ERIC Number: EJ307225
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1984
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Students Motivating Students to Excel: Cooperative Incentives, Cooperative Tasks, and Student Achievement.
Slavin, Robert E.
Elementary School Journal, v85 n1 p53-63 Sep 1984
Reports several field experimental research studies which tested the effects of group and individual incentive structures and tasks on individual academic achievement. The positive effects of cooperative learning methods result from the use of cooperative incentives, not cooperative tasks, apparently due to change in peer norms. (CB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Cooperation, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Activities, Incentives, Motivation Techniques, Peer Relationship, Secondary School Students, Student Motivation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers; Practitioners
Language: English
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