CHP 7 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY BY SLAVIN 11 EDITION
Compare and contrast whole-class and small-group discussions in terms of small- appropriate contexts, prerequisites, advantages, and limitations
areas | whole class discussions | small group discussions |
appropriate context | when the class size is small it is beneficial to take whole class into discussion, topics that require large amount of ideas and brain storming is required. | when class size is very large it becomes important to divide students into groups and make them voice their opinion. It is mostly done by assingning different topics to diffrent groups. |
prerequisites | the entire class is non-uniform in opinion | there are some sections of students having similar opinion about a topic |
advantages | it saves time and resources | consensus in decision can be easily achieved, |
limitations | it is hard to achieve consensus in opinion. | it might take time depending upon number of groups assigned by the teacher. |
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