Complex Instruction: Equity in Cooperative Learning Classrooms.

Y

7

Academic Achievement; Cooperative Learning; Diversity (Student); Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Group Activities; Grouping (Instructional Purposes); Teamwork

0040-5841

Discusses two dimensions of equity within small-group learning--access and equitable relations--describing complex instruction (CI) as an approach that lets educators address these issues. CI teachers use cooperative learning to teach at high academic levels in diverse classrooms. The paper describes CI in action, achievement results in CI classrooms, group tasks for CI, and status problems and treatment. (SM)

2000

EJ592336