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Teachers reviewed the top candidates, and selected the tutors based on social skills, language skills, school attendance and classroom behavior. The student or students chosen as peers must be properly coached before the peer relationship begins, both to understand the importance of the intervention and the methods which should be used.
The student's behavior affects peer interaction—the responsibility of influencing these behaviors is placed with the Instructor. The way the instructor organizes the classroom should lead to a positive environment rather than a destructive and/or an environment that is not conducive to learning.
Peer groups can have great influence or peer pressure on each other's behavior, depending on the amount of pressure. However, currently more than 23 percent of children globally lack enough connections with their age group, and their cognitive, emotional and social development are delayed than other kids.
Students' digital skills improved and peer learning and problem-solving increased. [47] A 2012 study reported that videos kept students' attention, generated subject matter interest, and clarified course content. [48] Students reported that videos helped them recall information and visualize real-world applications.
Peer instruction as a learning system works by moving information transfer out and moving information assimilation, or application of learning, into the classroom. [3] [4] [5] Students prepare to learn outside of class by doing pre-class readings and answering questions about those readings using another method, called Just in Time Teaching. [6]
For the unwilling, a punishment system was in effect. The combination, Professor Bhavnani argues, is a behavioral norm enforced by in-group policing. Instead of the typical peer pressure associated with western high school students, the peer pressure within the Rwandan genocide, where Tutsi and Hutu have inter-married, worked under coercion.
Autonomy affords maximum possible influence to the learners. Autonomy encourages and needs peer support and cooperation. Autonomy means making use of self/peer assessment. Autonomy requires and ensures 100% differentiation. Autonomy can only be practised with student logbooks which are a documentation of learning and a tool of reflection.
Student classroom participation 1.00 Learner Student time on task 1.00 Learner Improved reading/study skills 1.00 Home environment / peer group Cooperative learning: 0.80 79 Teacher Homework (graded) 0.80 Teacher Classroom morale 0.60 73 Learner Initial cognitive prerequisites 0.60 Home environment / peer group Home environment intervention 0.50 69