Jigsaw.org
Title
The Jigsaw Classroom: A Cooperative Learning Technique
Description
Elliot Aronson is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of California in Santa Cruz. He has long-standing research interests in social influence and attitude change, cognitive dissonance, research methodology, and interpersonal attraction. Professor Aronson's experiments are aimed both at testing theory and at improving the human condition by influencing people to change dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors.
Professor Aronson received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1954, his M.A. from Wesleyan University in 1956, and his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1959. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas, and the University of California. In 1999, he won the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, making him the only psychologist to have won APA's highest awards in all three major academic categories: distinguished writing (1973), distinguished teaching (1980), and distinguished research (1999).
This web site is an effort to share some of the results from Professor Aronson's research on cooperative learning techniques. The site was co-designed by Mike Lestik and Scott Plous, and is hosted by Social Psychology Network. All digital imagery was generously donated by Photodisc.
Contact
- Wesleyan University
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- Middletown CT
- United States 06459
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- +1.860685236
