AND THE REASONS HE GIVES FOR HOLDING THAT OPINION.
Question 4, Page 316 [ mp3 141-142]
Now listen to part of a lecture on the same topic in an education class.
(Professor)
If you are preparing foreign students to enter an American university, you
must ensure that they can function in all three of these types of
environments: cooperative, competitive, and individualistic. In some
cultures, similar to some places here in the United States, the school
system is organized in such a way that not all of these environments are
regularly encountered, and so students may need help learning how to
operate in one or more of them. So, for one group of students who were
not used to operating in an individualistic environment, we designed
tasks in series. That meant that, in order to get to the next task, they had
to complete each step in the process by themselves, and each student
was able to move at his or her own pace. We also modified the testing
procedures so that we could enforce a policy of individual effort, not
cooperative effort, which most professors regard as cheating. We had
quizzes more frequently with less weight on each one. Most students
learned that their effort had to be on an individual level.
Now, for another group who was not used to a cooperative environment,
we introduced group projects with divided responsibilities that required
students to interact with each other to complete the project. We also
evaluated them cooperatively. On tests, the score for each individual was
the average of the total score for the whole group. The fact that the
students knew their final score depended on the performance of their
classmates helped establish an atmosphere where students cooperated
to learn the material.
EXPLAIN HOW THE TWO EXAMPLES GIVEN BY THE PROFESSOR ILLUSTRATE
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