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20 - Collaborative Learning

The Benefits and Costs

from Part IV - General Learning Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2019

John Dunlosky
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Kent State University, Ohio
Katherine A. Rawson
Affiliation:
Kent State University, Ohio
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In this chapter, we examine and review the key factors that support or inhibit productive collaboration. We draw from multiple approaches, including cognitive, social, educational and sociocultural perspectives, to understand the potential benefits and costs of collaborative learning. We then review the results from these approaches in which we separate the benefits from the costs and discuss the cognitive and social mechanisms proposed to account for those outcomes. We then describe four theoretical frameworks that incorporate some of these mechanisms and the implications of the findings for instruction and future research.
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