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Jigsaw laboratory cycle: heterogeneous home groups plus expert groups alternating around shared experiments

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Description

The article's Jigsaw implementation organises a 15-week laboratory course into five-person heterogeneous Jigsaw groups formed by academic achievement, and topic-based expert groups of the same size. Each member studies one sub-topic, performs its related experiments, and teaches it back in the home group before all groups run experiments by turns. The article reports that "five Jigsaw groups with five people w ere formed" and "five Expert Groups consisting of f ive members were set up", with 2 hours for first Jigsaw activities, 4 for expert groups, 4 for second Jigsaw activities and 10 for experiments per field.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • The main content chosen for group work must be divided into sub-categories for the equal responsibility of group members
  • Cooperative tasks must be challenging enough to require joint effort and include sufficient tasks for each member to contribute

Constraints

  • When students believe their individual efforts are not related to group performance, social evasion and fool effect may occur
  • Some student teachers' not doing their job properly affected other student teachers' learning badly

Target Learners

  • third-grade prospective science teachers in tertiary education

Learning Goals

  • scientific process skills
  • physics, chemistry and biology laboratory content
  • cooperative social skills

Claims

  • Cooperative Learning

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Ataman Karacop, Emine Hatun Diken. (2017). The Effects of Jigsaw Technique Based on Cooperative Learning on Prospective Science Teachers' Science Process Skill. Journal of Education and Practice, Vol.8, No.6. https://www.iiste.org
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id jigsaw-expert-group-laboratory-cycle
title Jigsaw laboratory cycle: heterogeneous home groups plus expert groups alternating around shared experiments
description The article's Jigsaw implementation organises a 15-week laboratory course into five-person heterogeneous Jigsaw groups formed by academic achievement, and topic-based expert groups of the same size.
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