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Enlisting Peer Cooperation and Prosociality in the Service of Substance Use Prevention in Middle School

NCT03119415 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2064

Last updated 2020-07-23

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Summary

Students' cooperative and prosocial behavior is vital to their social and academic success and to the quality of a school's social environment. This project will evaluate an instructional technique that could benefit students and schools by encouraging higher levels of prosocial behavior among students and promoting social integration and inclusion, particularly for marginalized students. The instructional technique is called "cooperative learning" which involves students working in groups toward shared academic goals. Previous research indicates that cooperative learning promotes social acceptance and increases academic engagement and achievement. However, it has not been evaluated as a technique to reduce student behavioral problems and promote greater school safety. There is strong reason to believe that it will have these benefits, since cooperative learning brings together students from diverse social groups and provides them the opportunity to work together toward shared goals in a positive setting.

Conditions

  • Social Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cooperative Learning

CL is an umbrella term that includes peer tutoring, reciprocal teaching, collaborative reading, and other methods in which peers help each other learn in small groups. CL is not prescriptive but rather is a conceptual framework within which teachers design their own small-group activities. Johnson, Johnson, and Holubec's approach to CL combines positive interdependence with individual accountability, a high degree of face-to-face social interaction among youth, and support for the development of cooperative social skills. The Johnsons' approach offers teachers the combination of specific cooperative activities and the conceptual tools to create their own lesson plans using positive interdependence.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-07-01
Primary Completion
2018-06-30
Completion
2020-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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