Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ548202
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Cooperative Learning and Peer Acceptance of Students with Learning Disabilities.
Putnam, Joanne; And Others
Journal of Social Psychology, v136 n6 p741-52 Dec 1996
Explores the effects of 417 regular education students' acceptance of 41 learning disabled classmates. Participants were upper elementary students enrolled in either cooperative or competitive learning classes. After eight months positive changes in peer ratings among the students occurred more frequently in the cooperative learning classes. (MJP)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Humanistic Education, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Peer Acceptance, Peer Influence, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Social Integration, Socialization, Special Education, Special Needs Students, Student Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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