Following this team practice, students take individual quizzes on the assigned material. Teammates are notpermitted to help one another on these quizzes. The quizzes are graded by the teacher and individual scores are then calculated into team scores by the teacher. The amount each student contributes to the team score is related to a comparison between the student's prior average or base score. If the student's quiz score is higher than the base score, then that student will contribute positively to the team score. This scoring methods rewards students for improvement (Slavin, 1986). The use of improvement points has been shown to increase student academic performance even without teams (Slaving,1986), and it is an important component of student team learning (Slavin, 1986; 1995)
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