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Abram et al.

The use of evaluation criteria to improve academic discussion in cooperative groups

Academic status and reading achievement: modifying the effects of the self-fulfilling prophecy

Albert and Jones

Implementing the science teaching standards through complex instruction: A case study of two teacher-researchers

Alexander et al.

Lower-status participation and influence: Task structure matters

Teachers' and pupils' perceptions of and responses to cooperative learning methods within the Islamic culture courses in one secondary school in Saudi Arabia

An exploration of the ‘cultural script’ for teaching and learning mathematics in English secondary schools and its relationship with teacher change

Bilingual students' acquisition of academic language: A study of the language processes and products in a complex instruction classroom

Effects of status and task upon observable power and prestige order of small task-oriented groups

Baker and Clark

Educational equity in ethnically diverse group work

Balabanian and Dean

Group-Worthy Task Write-Up

Breaking the spell of differentiated instruction through equity pedagogy and teacher community

Reframing practice: Teacher learning through interactions in a collaborative group

Respectful student interaction and learning through complex instruction

A study of culturally syntonic variables in the bilingual/bicultural science classroom

Using authentic discussion to promote participation and equity

Towards an equitable classroom: Cooperative learning in intercultural education in Europe. Final report of the Cooperative Learning in Intercultural Education Project (CLIP)

Co-operative learning in intercultural education: Centre for Research, Evaluation, Development and Inservice Training

Preparing schools for a multicultural learning society: Report of the first project year

Batelaan and Passantino

The big myth: An intercultural complex instruction unit on the Internet

Batelaan and van Hoof

Cooperative learning in intercultural education

Developing social and communication skills for cooperative learning

Beck and Chizhik

Cooperative learning instructional methods for CS1: Design, implementation, and evaluation

Ben-Ari and Eliassy

The differential effects of the learning environment on student achievement motivation: A comparison between frontal and complex instruction strategies

Ben-Ari and Kedem-Friedrich

Restructuring heterogeneous classes for cognitive development: Social interactive perspective

Ben-Ari and Kedem-Friedrich

Enhancing academic achievement through cooperative learning: How it works

Ben-Ari et al.

Differential effects of simple frontal versus complex teaching strategy on teachers' stress, burnout, and satisfaction

Berger et al.

Status organizing processes

Berger et al.

Evaluations and the formation and maintenance of performance expectations

What's the big idea?

Where knowledge construction, equity, and context intersect: Student learning of science in small groups

How to foster student–student learning of science? The student, the teacher and the subject matter

From here to equity: The influence of status on student access to and understanding of science

Bianchini et al.

Cooperative learning in the untracked middle school science classroom: A study of student achievement

Using cooperative learning in science education

How complex instruction led to high and equitable achievement: The case of Railside School

Promoting respectful learning

Urban success: A multidimensional mathematics approach with equitable outcomes

Promoting ‘relational equity’and high mathematics achievement through an innovative mixed-ability approach

What's math got to do with It?: How parents and teachers can help children learn to love their least favorite subject

How a detracked mathematics approach promoted respect, responsibility, and high achievement

Boaler and Brodie

The importance, nature, and impact of teacher questions

Boaler and Staples

Creating mathematical futures through an equitable teaching approach: The case of Railside School

Boaler and Staples

Transforming students’ lives through an equitable mathematics approach: The case of Railside School

Boaler et al.

Complex instruction in England–the journey, the new schools, and initial results

The effect of a multiple ability treatment on status and learning in the cooperative social studies classroom

Thinking about groupwork: The effects of low press metacognitive academic journaling on groupwork skills, processes, and affect

School policy in Sweden-a school case: A complex instruction introductory workshop

Brock and Hastie

Students’ verbal exchanges and dynamics during sport education

Brock et al.

The influence of student status on student interactions and experiences during a sport education unit

Brodie et al.

Teaching mathematics and social justice: Multidimensionality and responsibility

Brody and Nagel

Teacher decision making for cooperative learning in a preservice master’s program

“Going up there”: Challenges and opportunities for language minority students during a mainstream classroom speech event

“Academic English” in the 7th grade: Broadening the lens, expanding access

The language of ideas and the language of display: Reconceptualizing “academic language” in linguistically diverse classrooms

Bunch and Willett

Writing to mean in middle school: Understanding how second language writers negotiate textually-rich content-area instruction

Bunch et al.

Beyond sheltered instruction: Rethinking conditions for academic language development

Bunch et al.

Keeping content at the heart of content-based instruction: Access and support for transitional English learners

How a new form of peer coaching helps teachers and students in two-way bilingual programs

Taking them into the field: Mathematics teacher candidate learning about equity-oriented teaching practices in a mediated field experience

Carlson and Dumplis

Was Immigration Worth It? Or “For class, it was pretty fun"

Increasing mathematics and English language proficiency through groupwork

Voices silenced, voices heard: Exploring status, discourse, and learning in middle school discussion groups

Chiriac and Granström

Teachers’ leadership and students’ experience of group work

Adapting teacher interventions to student needs during cooperative learning: How to improve student problem solving and time on-task

Can students work together equitably? An analysis of task effects in collaborative group work

Equity and status in group collaboration: Learning through explanations depends on task characteristics

Chizhik et al.

The rise and fall of power and prestige orders: Influence of task structure

“I don't need your help!” Peer status, race, and gender during peer writing interactions

Talking and working together: Status, interaction and learning

Beyond the buzzwords: Equity and cooperative learning

Interracial interaction disability

Classroom management and complex instruction

Problems and Prospects of Teaming

Expectation states and interracial interaction in school settings

Teaching in multiculturally heterogeneous classrooms: Findings from a model program

Restructuring the classroom: Conditions for productive small groups

Complex instruction in the middle school

Producing equal status behavior in cooperative learning

The effects of desegregation on race relations

Equitable classrooms in a changing society

Understanding status problems: Sources and consequences

Design and redesign of the desegregated school

Complex instruction

Continuing to cooperate: Prerequisites for persistence

From theory to practice: The development of an applied research program

Complex instruction in science

An animal guide to opportunity-to-learn standards

A sociologist looks at talking and working together in the mathematics cassroom

Modifying the effects of social structure

Producing equal-status interaction amidst classroom diversity

Cohen and Anthony

Expectation states theory and classroom learning

Cohen and Benton

Making groupwork work

Cohen and Chatfield

Complex instruction in the middle school: Implementation manual

Cohen and Cohen

From groupwork among children to R&D teams: Interdependence, interaction and productivity

Cohen and DeAvila

Learning to think in math and science: Improving local education for minority children

Cohen and Intili

Interdependence and management in bilingual classrooms: Final report II

Cohen and Intili

Interdependence and management in bilingual classrooms: Final report

Cohen and Lotan

Producing equal-status interaction in the heterogeneous classroom

Cohen and Lotan

Teacher as supervisor of complex technology

Cohen and Lotan

Creating equal status interaction in heterogeneous classrooms: Evidence from complex instruction

Cohen and Lotan

Designing groupwork: Strategies for the heterogeneous classroom

Cohen and Lotan

Operation of status in the middle grades: Recent complications

Cohen and Lotan

Working for equity in heterogeneous classrooms: Sociological theory in practice

Cohen and Roper

Modification of interracial interaction disability: An application of status characteristic theory

Cohen and Sharan

Modifying status relations in Israeli youth: An application of expectation states theory

Cohen et al.

Can groups learn?

Cohen et al.

Talking and working together

Cohen et al.

The center for interracial cooperation: A field experiment

Cohen et al.

Complex instruction: Equity in cooperative learning classrooms

Cohen et al.

Complex instruction: Higher-order thinking in heterogeneous classrooms

Cohen et al.

Complex instruction in the untracked social studies classroom

Cohen et al.

Teaching demanding strategies for cooperative learning

Cohen et al.

Can classrooms learn?

Cohen et al.

Organization and instruction in elementary schools: First results, 1973

Cohen et al.

Can expectations for competence be altered in the classroom?

Cohen et al.

Dismantling status hierarchies in heterogeneous classrooms

Cohen et al.

Organizing the classroom for learning

Cohen et al.

Treating status problems in the cooperative classroom.

Cohen et al.

Reducing the racial achievement gap: A social-psychological intervention

Producing equal status interaction between Indian and white boys in British Columbia

Correll and Ridgeway

Expectation states theory

Mathematical communication: Issues of access and equity

Crawford et al.

Ways of knowing beyond facts and laws of science: An ethnographic investigation of student engagement in scientific practices

Linguistic interdependence and the educational development of bilingual children

Small-group learning and teaching in mathematics

DeAvila and Duncan

Finding Out! Descubrimiento

DeAvila et al.

Multicultural improvement of cognitive abilities: Final report to California State Department of Education

Dembo and McAuliffe

Effects of perceived ability and grade status on social interaction and influence in cooperative groups

Diaz et al.

Science education of limited English proficient, English language learners

Ding et al.

Teacher interventions in cooperative-learning mathematics classes

Supporting iron sharpening iron: Developing a swagger in the hearts of urban math and science students

Drew and Wofsky

What in the world are we supposed to do?: An analysis of a group-worthy task

“Ms. Martin is secretly teaching us!” High school mathematics practices of a teacher striving toward equity

Delegating mathematical authority as a means to strive toward equity

Designing groupwork activities: A case study

Dyson et al.

The implementation of cooperative learning in an elementary physical education program

Moving beyond cooperation: Developing science thinking in independent groups

Ellis and Lotan

Looking in mirrors: Teachers doing, seeing, knowing.

Ellis and Rathbone

Teacher education for equity: Overcoming status problems and achievement gaps in heterogeneous middle school classrooms

The relationship between assigning competence and students’ perceptions of their mathematical abilities

Students' experience with groupwork in an algebra intervention classroom

Engle et al.

Toward a model of influence in persuasive discussions: Negotiating quality, authority, privilege, and access within a student-led argument

Does complex instruction benefit intercultural education?

Mathematics learning in groups: Analyzing equity in two cooperative activity structures

Mathematics learning in groups: Analysing equity within an activity structure

Ideas and identities: Supporting equity in cooperative mathematics learning

Fathman and Kessler

Cooperative language learning in school contexts

Featherstone et al.

Smarter together! Collaboration and equity in the elementary math classroom

Gender patterns in African American and White adolescents' social interactions in same-race, mixed-gender groups

Complex instruction in complex classrooms: A synthesis of research on inquiry teaching methods and explicit teaching strategies

How differentiated groups affect fifth grade science students

Gandhi et al.

Attending to experimental physics practices and lifelong learning skills in an introductory laboratory course

Exploring equity in a mathematics classroom through cooperative task design

Motivating learners of different ability levels

Social perspective taking: A facilitating aptitude for conflict resolution, historical empathy, and social studies achievement

Gelles and Baker

Preparing tomorrow’s teachers: Effective integration of multitouch devices in complex instruction activities

Gillies and Boyle

Teachers' reflections on cooperative learning: Issues of implementation

Learning from others, learning with others: The tense encounter between equality and difference

Goudas and Magotsiou

The effects of a cooperative physical education program on students’ social skills

Graves and Graves

Broken circles

Interaktion och lärande i flerspråkiga klasser

Gundare and Batelaan

Learning about and from the Holocaust: the development and implementation of a complex instruction unit in Latvia

Cooperative learning in elementary schools

Hand et al.

Narrowing participation gaps

Haro et al.

“Teachers teaching teachers” revisited: The Bay Area Foreign Language Program-A model that works

Hatchman and Rolland

Students' voices about schooling: What works for them–its implications to school reform

Intellectual role taking: Supporting discussion in heterogeneous elementary science classes

Herrenkohl and Guerra

Participant structures, scientific discourse, and student engagement in fourth grade

From Stereotyping and Put-Downs to Collaboration and Problem-Solving: A Journey in Search of Academic Engagement

Hoffman and Cohen

An exploratory study to determine the effects of generalized performance expectations upon activity and influence of students engaged in a group simulation game

Scientifically speaking: Identifying, analyzing, and promoting science talk in small groups

Holthuis et al.

Supporting and understanding students' epistemological discourse about climate change

Lessons learned from detracked mathematics departments

Turnaround students in high school mathematics: Constructing identities of competence through mathematical worlds

Learning on the job: A situated account of teacher learning in high school mathematics departments

Why do students drop advanced mathematics?

Strength in numbers: Collaborative learning in secondary mathematics

Horn and Campbell

Developing pedagogical judgment in novice teachers: mediated field experience as a pedagogy for teacher education

Opportunities for professional learning in mathematics teacher workgroup conversations: Relationships to instructional expertise

Hughes and Townley

Cooperative learning in graduate education: A study of its effectiveness in administrator training in two California universities

Supporting teacher noticing of students' mathematical strengths

Johnson et al.

Cooperative learning methods: A meta-analysis

Group work, language and interaction: Challenges of implementation in Aboriginal contexts

Jorgensen et al.

Good learning = A good life: Mathematics transformation in remote indigenous communities

Communication in cooperative learning groups

Equality of opportunity for marginalized Roma children: Starting right

Intersubjectivity and groupwork in school mathematics: Examining year 7 students' interactions from a perspective of communicative action

Using complex instruction in Poland: The case of the Lauder-Morasha School

Kovácsné Nagy

Az esélyegyenlőtlenség iskolai kezelése csoportmunkával: A hátrányos helyzetű tanulók státuszproblémájának kezelése a Complex Instruction Program segítségével

Kujansivu and Rosell

Complex Instruction as a tool for developing the role of the teacher: A workshop presented at the "Intercultural Education and Co-operative Learning" conference in Ghent, May 2000

The social construction of authority among peers and its implications for collaborative mathematics problem solving

Sex inequities in classroom interaction: An evaluation of an intervention

Complex instruction and teaming: The relationship between school organization and the introduction of an instructional innovation

How high achieving and low achieving students differentially benefit from working together in cooperative groups

Positioning and Latinas/os: A study of small-group interactions in mathematics

Group worthy task write-up

Status problems and social structure in middle school classrooms

Lloyd and Cohen

Peer status in the middle school: A natural treatment for unequal participation

Lockheed et al.

Sex and social influence: Does sex function as a status characteristic in mixed-sex groups of children?

Changing a racial status ordering by means of role modeling

Stepping into groupwork

Complex instruction: Theory and classroom implementation

Teaching teachers to build equitable classrooms

Conceptual Understanding and Implementation Facets of Educational Technology.

Principles of a principled curriculum

Managing groupwork

Developing language and mastering content in heterogeneous classrooms

Lotan and Benton

Finding out about complex instruction: Teaching math and science in heterogeneous classrooms

Lotan and Navarrete

The process of mutual adaptation: A study of an innovative program

Lotan et al.

Complex Instruction in the science classroom

Lotan et al.

Talking and working together: Conditions for learning in complex instruction

Lotan et al.

Beyond the workshop: Evidence from complex instruction

Lotan et al.

Strategies for detracked middle schools: Curricular materials, instructional strategies, and access to learning

Tensions in equity-and reform-oriented learning in teachers' collaborative conversations

Upper primary students' perceptions of small group learning in learning Vietnamese language

Using group-worthy tasks to improve student flexibility with mathematical representations

Status rules of behavior in scenarios of cooperative learning groups

McAuliffe and Dembo

Status rules of behavior in scenarios of peer learning

The benefits of cooperative learning arrangements in second language instruction

McLeskey and Brownell

High-leverage practices and teacher preparation in special education

Meloy et al.

Dr. Sneab’s gummi buddies: A groupworthy task for balancing chemical equations

Appropriate appropriation: Functionality of student arguments and support requests during small-group classroom discussions

From the trenches: Increasing student learning

Holocaust curriculum development for Latvian schools: Arriving at purposes, aims, and goals through curriculum deliberation

A normative intervention to equalize participation in task-oriented groups

Fifth and sixth graders' involvement and participation in cooperative small groups in mathematics

Perceptions of intermediate students' cooperative small-group work in mathematics

The historical roots of cooperative learning

Myers et al.

Investigating public issues of global importance

Nasir et al.

Mathematics for Equity: A Framework for Successful Practice

Problems in small group interaction: A bilingual classroom study

Finding Out/Descubrimiento: A developmental approach to language and culture in a bilingual elementary classroom

The effect of various input on the second language acquisition of Mexican-American children in nine elementary school classrooms

Nolan and Fhloinn

Notes on group-work based tutorials in a large service teaching module

After the elementary mathematics teacher workshop: Stories of becoming complex instruction teachers

Social and emotional skill development through groupwork in the primary grades

Parsons et al.

An investigation of student roles within small, racially mixed science groups: A racial perspective

Perrenet and Terwel

Learning together in multicultural groups: A curriculum innovation

Perrenet and Terwel

Complex instruction in the Netherlands: A case study

Perrenet and Terwel

Interaction patterns in cooperative groups: The effects of gender, ethnicity, and ability

Status problem and expectations of competence: a challenging path for teachers

Working on cooperative learning: Challenges in implementing a new strategy

Learning to participate through complex instruction

Creativity and competence in experimenting complex instruction: From the perspective of pupils

Innovare l’insegnamento: lo sguardo di un gruppo di insegnanti all’Istruzione Complessa

Creativity and competence in experimenting complex instruction: From the perspective of pupils

Complex instruction: Managing professional development and school culture

Complex instruction: Managing professional development and school culture

Creating complex instruction teaching units: Creativity, resistance and choices

When students with disabilities participate in cooperative groups

Purmintasari and Lestari

Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Complex Instruction Terhadap Hasil Belajar IPS

Diverse classrooms–diverse society: Preparing our students for diverse society through intercultural education, cooperative learning and complex instruction

Status in groups: The importance of motivation

Riordan and Ruggiero

Producing equal-status interracial interaction: A replication

Orchestraing a content-practice driven math class

Cooperative learning and the academically talented student

The multiple ability curriculum: An intervention against the self-fulfulling prophecy

Modifying status expectations in the traditional classroom

Treating problems of academic status

Rosenholtz and Cohen

Activating ethnic status

Rosenholtz and Cohen

Back to Basics and the Desegregated School

Rosenholtz and Simpson

Classroom organization and student stratification

Rosenholtz and Wilson

The effect of classroom structure on shared perceptions of ability

Claiming voices and getting a "good education": Status and resistance in a multicultural seventh grade social studies/language arts class

Knowledge and intelligence: Roots of and routes to empowerment of culturally diverse students

Challenging spaces: Sites for the reproduction, construction, and transformation of identities and knowledge

Savage et al.

Effective teaching in elementary social studies

Assessing complex academic performance at the group level

Sensemaking, interaction, and learning in student groups

Scarloss and Schultz

EC rider: A teacher’s use of evaluation criteria in assessing group products in heterogeneous classrooms

To group or not to group: Effects of groupwork on students' declarative and procedural knowledge in science

Sebba et al.

Raising expectations and achievement levels for all mathematics students (REALMS): Final report toe the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Sebre and Gundare

Complexity of change in ethnic tolerance following use of a complex instruction unit on the Holocaust in Latvia

Sengupta-Irving

Affinity through mathematical activity: Cultivating democratic learning communities

Essential features of a teacher education programme for cooperative learning

Shulman et al.

Groupwork in diverse classrooms: A casebook for educators

Shulman et al.

Groupwork in diverse classrooms: A casebook for educators [and] facilitator's guide

Cooperative learning and student achievement: Six theoretical perspectives

Making comprehension comprehensible: using explicit instruction in comprehension skills and effective groupwork strategies to increase secondary student reading achievement

Cooperative learning in language arts: A handbook for teachers

Stahl and VanSickle

Cooperative learning in the social studies classroom: An introduction to social study

Promoting student collaboration in a detracked, heterogeneous secondary mathematics classroom

Cooperative learning: Fad or foundation for learning?

Sullivan et al.

Transposing reform pedagogy into new contexts: Complex instruction in remote Australia

The intersection of language and mathematics

When history becomes contemporary: Teaching about the Crusades in the wake of September 11

Friendships and group work in linguistically diverse mathematics classrooms: Opportunities to learn for English language learners

Takeuchi and Towers

Students' experiences of group work revealed through mathematics autobiographies

The effects of task structure on beliefs about competence and participation in small groups

Complex instruction: Implementation results and their implications for social studies teacher education

Complex instruction: Giving students the education they deserve

Differentiating instruction for advanced learners in the mixed-ability middle school classroom

Assessing the conference

Some reflections on the connection between Holocaust education and intercultural education

Exploring the effects of complex instruction on English language learners in a first grade classroom

Van den Branden and Van Gorp

Co-operative learning In multicultural groups: How co-operative is it?

Van den Branden and Van Gorp

How to evaluate CLIM in terms of intercultural education

Verlot and Pinxten

Intercultural education and complex instruction: Some remarks and questions from an anthropological perspective on learning

Variations of co-operative learning: An analysis of four different approaches

Equity pedagogy: The effects on academic achievement and student engagement in linguistically diverse classrooms

Establishing a productive climate for adult learning in the small instructional group

Heterogenius classrooms: Detracking math and science, a look at groupwork in action

Student interaction and learning in small groups

The teacher's role in promoting collaborative dialogue in the classroom

Group collaboration in assessment: Multiple objectives, processes, and outcomes

Predicting learning from student interaction: Defining the interaction variables

Task-related verbal interaction and mathematics learning in small groups

Webb and Kenderski

Student interaction and learning in small-group and whole-class settings

Webster and Foschi

Status generalization: New theory and research

Decoding collaborative learning in a wireless handheld computing environment

Whyte and Ellis

The power of a network organization: A model for school-university collaboration

Comparison of elementary school children's interaction in teacher-led and student-led small groups

Comparison of elementary school children's interaction in teacher-led and student-led small groups

Wilkinson and Fung

Small-group composition and peer effects

Mathematical micro-identities: Moment-to-moment positioning and learning in a fourth-grade classroom

Delegation of authority and the use of the student facilitator role

Zevenbergen et al.

Creating equitable practice in diverse classrooms: Developing a tool to evaluate pedagogy

Becoming a "Liberal" Math Learner: Expanding Secondary School Mathematics to Support Cultural Connections, Multiple Mathematics Identities and Engagement

Translated Mathematics: Immigrant Women's Use of Salient Identities as Cultural Tools for Interpretation and Learning

Using Groups in Criminal Justice Courses: Some New Twists on a Traditional Pedagogical Tool