Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD)
STAD is one of these three strategies under the umbrella of Student Learning Teams developed at John Hopkins University based on years of research on cooperative learning. In STAD, students study with 4-5 team members following a teacher presentation. Students take quizzes individually to demonstrate how much they have learned. The individual quiz scores are summed to form a team score, and teams are rewarded for their performance. Teams are made up of students with varying academic abilities, genders, and race. The entire cycle of activities, from teacher presentation to team practice to quiz, usually takes 3 to 5 class periods. STAD has been used in a wide variety of subjects, from math to language arts to social studies, and has been used from grade 2 through college. It is most appropriate for teaching well-defined objectives with single right answers, such as specific locational characteristics in geography and some map skills, knowledge of evens in history, and principles of economics or government.
http://www.pwcs.edu/curriculum/sol/stad.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=gD7_VSNmu7cC&pg=RA1-PA173&lpg=RA1-PA173&dq=teams+games+tournaments&source=bl&ots=nUSpRmBwHV&sig=lyGxizi24YSGbcO4VfphKA_GXMk&hl=en&ei=ONZDSoPADZLmM6DzqZ8B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7
(The above site is a portion of a chapter taken from the work of Brophy.)
http://www.pwcs.edu/curriculum/sol/stad.htm
(Defines topic)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3407929/Guidelines-Cooperative-Learning?__cache_revision=1234856118&__user_id=-1&enable_docview_caching=1
(Written by Slavin)
http://books.google.com/books?id=5fEVBpweaTgC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=student+teams+achievement+division&source=bl&ots=WyFjWqa8u6&sig=yCWeDcGVJ9hFDHSp14ropInu__A&hl=en&ei=V9pDSvWpNMWptgfJiZytAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3
(Read section on Co-operation verses Competition)
http://www.pwcs.edu/curriculum/sol/stad.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=gD7_VSNmu7cC&pg=RA1-PA173&lpg=RA1-PA173&dq=teams+games+tournaments&source=bl&ots=nUSpRmBwHV&sig=lyGxizi24YSGbcO4VfphKA_GXMk&hl=en&ei=ONZDSoPADZLmM6DzqZ8B&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7
(The above site is a portion of a chapter taken from the work of Brophy.)
http://www.pwcs.edu/curriculum/sol/stad.htm
(Defines topic)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3407929/Guidelines-Cooperative-Learning?__cache_revision=1234856118&__user_id=-1&enable_docview_caching=1
(Written by Slavin)
http://books.google.com/books?id=5fEVBpweaTgC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=student+teams+achievement+division&source=bl&ots=WyFjWqa8u6&sig=yCWeDcGVJ9hFDHSp14ropInu__A&hl=en&ei=V9pDSvWpNMWptgfJiZytAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3
(Read section on Co-operation verses Competition)