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Data Collected: Quiz scores While this article does not In our ESOL class, we
from most recent test support the data that was learned that students tend
collected, this shows me that to work better when they
G.B.= 81.5% the my ESOL student tends get to do what they want
Class Average= 92.11% to do worse when we pick his and get to have some say
partners for him rather than in their learning and their
Action Taken/Teaching when he picks them for learning environment. The
Strategy: For this teaching himself. This data supports next step for this is to start
strategy, we moved the students my belief that students tend incorporating more
to teacher-picked partners to see to do better when they get to student-picked partners
how the students would do on pick their own partners rather into the classroom.
assignments if they did not pick than when the teacher picks
their partners. them.
Diaz-Rico, L. T., & Weed,
Literature: “Students in the K. Z. (2002). The
structured conditions reported crosscultural, language,
higher levels of scholastic and academic development
competency and self-control than handbook: A complete K-
did students in the nonstructured 12 reference guide.
conditions.” Boston, MA: Allyn and
Bacon.
Fantuzzo, John W., King, Judith
A., Heller, Lauren R. (1992).
Effects of Reciprocal Peer
Tutoring on Mathematics and
School Adjustment: A
Component Analysis, The
Journal of Educational
Psychology, 84:3, 331-339.