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Strategy: Success Teams Application: Chemistry or Any Course Educator: Nagash Clark, Faculty, Chemistry, Washtenaw Community College, MI Implementation: I divided my general chemistry class into success teams. I chose the group members myself. This is class where historically student performance is all over the place. After I created success teams, the groups sat together, kept each other accountable; and worked on assignments together. They were also given bonus points if everyone got a C or above on a test. I have never seen such intra-group and inter-group camaraderie in a class. Attrition was very low, and grades were good. There was significant improvement on everyone's final assessment compared to the initial assessment that was given at the beginning of the semester (And this was a multiple choice department test--not one that I wrote).
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