Student Teams Can Improve Basic Skills: TGT Applied to Reading.

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Basic Skills; Class Activities; Classroom Research; Educational Games; Educational Innovation; Elementary Education; Elementary School Curriculum; Elementary School Mathematics; Language Arts; Reading Research; Student Attitudes; Teaching Methods; Vocabulary Skills

Cooperative classroom structures create more positive student attitudes and interpersonal relations. Their effect on student learning is less clear. TGT (Teams-Games-Tournament) is one cooperative-competitive classroom structure which facilitates learning mathematics and language arts. A study applying TGT to third grade reading classes is reported. TGT students learned more vocabulary and verbal analogy skills than did a comparable control group. The study shows clearly that both cognitive and affective outcomes can be improved by changing the level of classroom cooperation-competition. (Author/MPJ)

1977

ED136130