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Zedadra, Amina; Lafifi, Yacine; Zedadra, Ouarda – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
This paper presents a new approach of learners grouping in collaborative learning systems. This grouping process is based on traces left by learners. The goal is the circular dynamic grouping to achieve collaborative projects. The proposed approach consists of two main algorithms: (1) the circular grouping algorithm and (2) the dynamic grouping…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Animals, Animal Behavior, Homogeneous Grouping
Naiditch, Fernando – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2010
Learning cycles were developed in Brazil as an innovative project in order to address the needs and characteristics of the country's growing heterogeneous urban population. This new school model aims at reducing dropout rates and student failure as well as providing a non-interrupted school experience for diverse learners. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Education, Urban Population, Student Diversity
Fiedler-Brand, Ellen; Lange, Richard E.; Winebrenner, Susan – 1992
This brief bulletin addresses seven "myths" of tracking or ability grouping with gifted students in response to what is seen as a current movement against both ability grouping and tracking, which are characterized by the "anti-tracking" movement as inflexible and unaccommodating of a varied schedule. The following myths are countered: (1)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
Tozloski, Judith H. – Schools in the Middle, 1995
Describes the effort of a middle-school teacher to incorporate heterogeneous grouping into her math class. One day per week, heterogeneously grouped math students worked in teams to solve and present solutions to different kinds of logic problems. Suggests that flexibility and freedom to be creative are the keys for incorporating new ideas into…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning

Male, Mary – Social Studies Review, 1995
Maintains that elementary teachers acknowledge that the concept of a homogeneous classroom is a myth. Discusses key teacher behaviors for diverse classrooms. Presents a model lesson and extension activities designed to help students understand and appreciate cultural diversity. (CFR)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Pluralism
Galloway, Dan; Schwartz, Wendell – 1994
Efforts at one high school to reconsider its practices of ability grouping and explore alternative assessment and grouping practices are described. Assessment of the schools' practices found that students in lower ability groups had a less stimulating curriculum, fewer positive role models, lower motivation, lower expectations for themselves, and…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Educational Diagnosis