Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Elsa Villa, University of Texas-El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

available to help the team succeed. The objective is tomake sure the strong students realize they can get the instructor to help the weakerstudent. Since oftentimes the weaker student may not seek help, the stronger student canencourage the weaker one to get help. The incentive virtually forces the strong students toseek out the weaker ones. If a student has a reputation among peers for being hardworking, and that student has a poor grade on an exam, they become a much valuedpartner. This encourages all students to be positively interdependent, a key element offunctioning cooperative groups.Assessment Instruments Since one objective of this project is to increase the success rates of students indynamics, the class grades are monitored. To see