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Transforming Adolescent Mental Health Through Accessible, Scalable, Technology-supported Small-group Instruction
Sponsor: University of Oregon
Summary
Adolescence is a developmental period of significant risk for anxiety, depressive symptoms, and suicidality, and the investigators propose to target key peer-based risk and protective factors using Cooperative Learning (CL). CL is a small-group instructional approach that can enhance peer relations and reduce peer-related risks, as well as promote academic engagement and achievement and reduce racial disparities. CL will be delivered with the aid of technology that automates the design and delivery of CL lessons, promoting rapid implementation, scalability, high fidelity, accessibility, and sustainability.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
14 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
1200
Start Date
2023-09-01
Completion Date
2027-06-15
Last Updated
2025-10-03
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
PeerLearning.net
PeerLearning.net provides an easy-to-use, scalable, and widely accessible means to support teachers in effectively designing and delivering high-fidelity Cooperative Learning (CL) lessons and, in turn, it has the potential to amplify the positive effects of CL found in previous research. Using PeerLearning.net, teachers design their lesson by selecting from among a set of typical CL lesson templates (e.g., jigsaw, peer tutoring, group projects) which they can customize and populate with their own curriculum and materials. These design templates represent the optimal, high-fidelity design that is required in order for CL to be successful. During lesson delivery, PeerLearning.net manages membership in learning groups, distributes instructional materials, directs student activities according to a pre-specified timetable, supports teacher observations of student behavior, and delivers post-lesson group activities and reviews.
Locations (3)
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, United States
U of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, United States
U of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, United States