The Effectiveness of Teamwork for Student Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ritwik Banerjee (), Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch, Daniele Cassese (), Nabanita Datta Gupta and Paolo Pin
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Ritwik Banerjee: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Daniele Cassese: University of Cambridge

No 17362, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: An enduring question in education is whether team-based peer learning methods help improve learning outcomes among students. We randomly assign around 10,000 middle school students in Karnataka, India, to alternative peer learning treatments in Math and English that vary the intensity of collaboration. Teamwork with co-coaching outperforms simple teamwork and incentive treatments by increasing the test scores by about 0.25 standard deviation, but only in Math. This is both statistically and economically significant for students at the bottom of the ability distribution. We develop theoretical conditions under which teamwork with co-coaching outperforms simple teamwork as a peer-learning method.

Keywords: cooperative learning methods; jigsaw; peer effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I20 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2024-10
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