合作学习(cooperative learning)是20世纪70年代初兴起于美国,并在70年代中期至80年代中期取得实质性进展的一种富有创意和实效的教学理论与策略。由于它在改善课堂内的社会心理气氛,大面积提高学生的学业成绩,促进学生形成良好非认知品质等方面实效显著,很快引起了世界各国的关注,并成为当代主流教学理论与策略之一,被人们誉为“近十几年来最重要和最成功的教学改革。”自20世纪80年代末、90年代初开始,我国也出现了合作学习的研究与实验,并取得了较好的效果。《国务院关于基础教育改革与发展的决定》中专门提及合作学习,指出 Cooperative learning is an innovative and effective teaching theory and strategy that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s and made substantial progress in the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. Because of its effectiveness in improving the social and psychological atmosphere in the classroom, improving students’ academic performance on a large scale and promoting students to form a good non-cognitive quality, it soon aroused the attention of all countries in the world and became the mainstream teaching theory and strategy First, being praised as “the most important and successful teaching reform in the past ten years.” “Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, there have also been research and experiments on cooperative learning in our country, Good results. The ”State Council Decision on Reform and Development of Basic Education" specifically refers to cooperative learning, pointing out