Individual and Group Credit for Class Participation

Author:

Taylor Cora M.1,Galyon Charles E.2,Forbes Bethany E.3,Blondin Carolyn A.3,Williams Robert L.3

Affiliation:

1. Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, PA, USA

2. APPLE Psychological Consultants, Maryville, TN, USA

3. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

Abstract

This research study focused on the use of cooperative groups to facilitate class-wide participation, especially for initially low participants. Undergraduates from three sections of a relatively large educational psychology course recorded their class participation in all course units. Four of the five units in each section offered either individual credit or group-plus-individual credit for participation. At the end of the first unit, instructors assigned students to five- or six-member cooperative groups based on their participation levels during the first unit. At the end of each remaining unit, instructors asked one student to randomly select 2 of 4 discussion days from that unit for individual participation credit. Additionally, in 2 of the 4 credit units, the instructor also made group bonus credit available if every present member of a group participated at least once on each selected credit day. The individual-plus-group credit contingency produced greater class-wide participation than individual credit alone for the total sample across the combined sections and for initially low participants in two of the three sections.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Psychology,Education

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