Did you know that studying in a group actually yields more results than studying alone? From an academic standpoint, there are countless benefits in which we will cover in the remainder of this blog post, but there are also physiological benefits of sharing your ideas and expressing different concepts in a group. Studies show that students engaged in group work, or cooperative learning, show increased individual achievement compared to students working alone. Group studying yields students who attain more knowledge and material in addition to problem solving and reasoning. This is because group learning challenges the unique conceptual framework of each student, which exposes them to the other students ways of thinking. Barriers are broken and students are compelled to learn things in new ways.
Not only does this trigger the students memory making them be able to remember concepts better on a test, it also encourages them to adapt to other students ways of learning. For example, if the problem was 8*8, one student could solve it by thinking 8*10 = 80, and knew that 10-2 was 8, and then subtracted 2*8 = 16 from 80, therefore 80-16=64. This student comes to the same answer as a student with a multiplication table that has memorized the “doubled multiplications” and then adds or subtracts to adjust, or a student who knows that 2*8=16, and then multiplied 16*4. Opening up multiple ways of solving problems teaches students to think outside of the box and sparks creativity. It also invites the type of learning where ideas that may or may not work are encouraged. Then, as a group, breaking down the idea, working backwards teaches immense problem solving skills.
Group learning inspires creative thinking and interpersonal skills and engaged learning, but it is also the cure for procrastination. When leaving a student alone to study, it’s quite often that they get distracted and often off topic. They might even start organizing their notes instead of studying. There really is no choice other than studying with a study group. Because of the social aspect of a study group, this also breaks up long periods of study time that a student may do alone, therefore creating a more adaptive learning environment. In a study, 70% of students reveal that they were motivated to study in a learn in a study group, compared to not being in one.
Do you think that a study group is right for your child? Do you have a friend of theirs or a relative that you would like to be in a study group with your child?
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