Differentiated Component Approach to Cooperative Learning

Abstract

It is the learner's activity that results in the learning. It is the function of the instructor to provide conditions that will increase the probability that the student will acquire the particular performance. That is to say, we cannot control learning but can only increase the probability that certain kinds of behavior will occur (Joyce & Weil, 1986, 429-431). Under proper conditions, emotional and intellectual growth could go hand in hand, and children could learn to like and trust each other in the course of their everyday learning activities (Aronson, Blaney, Stephen, & Snap, 1978, 18-23).