ABSTRACT
Cooperative learning has become a significant and widely used method for restructuring classrooms and schools over the past 15 years. What started as a means for improving interpersonal relations between students, giving them ways to interact and develop social skills, has grown into a national restructuring movement led by both teachers and researchers who want students to become more actively engaged in and take more responsibility for their own learning. Cooperative learning has helped to transform classrooms in elementary schools, secondary schools, and universities from passive learning situations with the teacher dominating the instructional conversation into engaging environments where students are active coparticipants in the learning process.
