Learning With Jigsaw: A Systematic Review Gathering All the Pieces of the Puzzle More Than 40 Years Later

• Published in: Review of educational research Vol. 95; no. 3; pp. 339 - 384
• Main Authors: Vives, Eva, Poletti, Céline, Robert, Anaïs, Butera, Fabrizio, Huguet, Pascal, Régner, Isabelle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2025; American Educational Research Association
• Subjects: Academic achievement; Cognitive science; Cooperative learning; Education; Humanities and Social Sciences; Meta Analysis; Peer relationships; Psychology; Self evaluation; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Systematic review; social interdependence; peer interaction/friendship; learning environments; psychosocial factors; academic achievement; collaboration; cooperative learning; social class; jigsaw classroom; desegregation; Cooperative learning; Social interdependence; Academic achievement; Jigsaw classroom; Collaboration; Psychosocial factors

The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning method designed in the late 1970s to improve the academic performance of minority children by reducing intergroup conflict and increasing self-evaluations. Despite its high popularity, the available evidence for the effectiveness of this method seems sc...