Small Group Instruction in Higher Education: Lessons from the Past, Visions of the Future

The second edition of this title represents a compilation of work completed by Jim Cooper and his colleagues in the Network for Cooperative Learning in higher education over the last fifteen years, including eight new chapters were written specifically for this edition. It presents a look at the history of small group instruction research, theory and practice and offers a glimpse at the future of this powerful instructional strategy.

James Cooper holds the B.A. from the University of Michigan in psychology and the Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Educational Psychology, Statistics and Measurement. He is Professor of Graduate Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills where he teaches courses in research methods, educational psychology and program evaluation. In 1991 Dr. Cooper received the Lyle F. Gibson Distinguished Teaching Award from Dominguez Hills. Pamela Robinson holds the B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Dominguez Hills and the M.A. in Experimental Psychology from the California State University, Fullerton. She is a Lecturer in the School of Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills where she teaches courses in motivation and learning, research methods and multicultural issues in education.