Cooperative Learning is Potentially Detrimental to Sustainable Academic Performance
Much has been written about cooperative learning and how it enhances overall academic performance. That is true if the following competencies are present:
- Effective communication skills both verbal and non-verbal
- Teamwork skills
- Focus or mental concentration skills
- Goal planning and goal achievement skills
- Higher order thinking skills including decision making and problem solving
- Emotional intelligence
- Positive self-worth and self-identify
- Age appropriate maturity and cognitive development