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== What ==
== What ==
{{adaptedfrom|Group Work - Research Summary|What|Collaborative work in small groups is designed to develop ‘higher order’ skills. The key elements are the talking and associated thinking that take place between group members. However, putting pupils in groups is no guarantee that they work as groups (Bennett 1976), so much deliberate work needs to be done to make group work productive.
{{adaptedfrom|Group Work - Research Summary|What|Collaborative work in small groups is designed to develop ‘higher order’ skills. The key elements are the talking and associated thinking that take place between group members. However, putting pupils in groups is no guarantee that they work as groups (Bennett 1976), so much deliberate work needs to be done to make group work productive.
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* ask questions rather than provide answers;
* ask questions rather than provide answers;
* use others’ answers as prompts for argument.}}
* use others’ answers as prompts for argument.}}
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