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Team Assisted Individualization
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Team Assisted Individualization
Sometimes called Team Accelerated Instruction, Team Assisted Individualization is a cooperative learning technique developed at Johns Hopkins University by a team led by Bob Slavin and Nancy Madden.
Children are split into teams of four or five with a mix of ability. After a teacher has taught a lesson, team mates help each other complete exercises. Children are given exercises at a level determined by their score in an initial test. Students are then tested individually. Teams earn recognition by way of weekly awards for their overall performance.
TAI is cited as a "top rated" program, for elementary maths, by the Best Evidence Encyclopaedia. Two large randomized studies have demonstrated its success for teaching mathematic computations (with a modest effect size of 0.29).
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