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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

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In this learning model, teams are arranged after a teacher-led lesson. Team members tutor one another in order to achieve mastery of new concepts. Then, students take individual quizzes, but the team evaluation is based on individual scores. Student teams achievement divisions encourages students to be responsible for members of their group as well as themselves.