ABSTRACT
The Jigsaw strategy, developed by the eminent psychologist Elliot Aronson, is an example of cooperative learning that contains within it an individualistic goal structure. The idea of Jigsaw is that each student in a cooperative learning group of, say, three students is responsible for peer teaching his or her companions a portion of the material they all need to learn. When a Jigsaw group of students is assembled, it is crucial that each member has something tangible to contribute. If students are learning about the three states of water, each student in a Jigsaw group is assigned to inform the others about the properties of water in a particular state. Another alternative for Jigsaw is to put students in The Week in Review groups on Friday and ask each group to come up with a "performance" that exemplifies a high point of the week.
