Cooperative learning reduces the gender gap in perceived social competences: A large-scale nationwide longitudinal experiment.
Ocyna Rudmann
,
Anatolia Batruch
(1)
,
Emilio Paolo Visintin
(1)
,
Nicolas Sommet
(1)
,
Pascal Bressoux
(2)
,
Céline Darnon
(3, 4, 5)
,
Marinette Bouet
(6)
,
Marco Bressan
(7, 8)
,
Genavee Brown
(9)
,
Carlos Cepeda
(10, 11)
,
Anthony Cherbonnier
(12)
,
Marie Demolliens
(3)
,
Anne-Laure de Place
(13, 14, 15, 16)
,
Olivier Desrichard
,
Théo Ducros
(17)
,
Luc Goron
(18)
,
Brivael Hemon
(19)
,
Pascal Huguet
(3)
,
Eric Jamet
(12)
,
Ruben Martinez
(17)
,
Vincent Mazenod
(17)
,
Nathalie Mella
(20)
,
Estelle Michinov
(12)
,
Nicolas Michinov
(12)
,
Nana Ofosu
,
Pascal Pansu
(2)
,
Laurine Peter
,
Benoit Petitcollot
,
Celine Poletti
,
Isabelle Régner
(7)
,
Mathilde Riant
,
Anais Robert
,
Camille Sanrey
,
Arnaud Stanczak
,
Farouk Toumani
,
Simon Vilmin
,
Eva Vives
,
Fabrizio Butera
1
UNIL -
Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne
2 LaRAC - Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Apprentissages en Contexte
3 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
4 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
5 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de psychologie sociale et de psychologie cognitive
6 LIMOS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'optimisation des Systèmes
7 LPC - Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive
8 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
9 Northumbria University [Newcastle]
10 IDDRC - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
11 UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles]
12 LP3C - EA1285 - Laboratoire de Psychologie : Cognition, Comportement, Communication
13 LAPPS - Laboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale
14 UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
15 Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UFR de psychologie
16 ENOSIS - Etudes sur les NOrmes Sociales et l'Identité Sociale
17 LIMOS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'Optimisation des Systèmes
18 UR2 - Université de Rennes 2
19 CLLE - Cognition, langues, langage, ergonomie
20 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva
2 LaRAC - Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Apprentissages en Contexte
3 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
4 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
5 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de psychologie sociale et de psychologie cognitive
6 LIMOS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'optimisation des Systèmes
7 LPC - Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive
8 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
9 Northumbria University [Newcastle]
10 IDDRC - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
11 UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles]
12 LP3C - EA1285 - Laboratoire de Psychologie : Cognition, Comportement, Communication
13 LAPPS - Laboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale
14 UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
15 Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UFR de psychologie
16 ENOSIS - Etudes sur les NOrmes Sociales et l'Identité Sociale
17 LIMOS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'Optimisation des Systèmes
18 UR2 - Université de Rennes 2
19 CLLE - Cognition, langues, langage, ergonomie
20 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva
Ocyna Rudmann
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Anatolia Batruch
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Emilio Paolo Visintin
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Céline Darnon
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Anthony Cherbonnier
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Marie Demolliens
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Olivier Desrichard
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Brivael Hemon
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Nana Ofosu
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Laurine Peter
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Isabelle Régner
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Mathilde Riant
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Camille Sanrey
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Arnaud Stanczak
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Farouk Toumani
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Eva Vives
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Abstract
Considering the evolving and unpredictable job market, adaptability is an important skill for young adults. Such adaptability implies that schools need to teach key social competences, like communication, collaboration, or problem-solving. In this area, a gender gap has consistently been found, showing that boys display social competences less than girls. A large-scale nationwide multilab longitudinal experiment—the ProFAN project—was conducted in France among more than 10,000 vocational high-school students. Its primary goal was to develop and test an intervention promoting a range of psychological and psychosocial variables in vocational high schools, including social competences. This 2-year long, three-wave field experiment compared the effects of a cooperative learning method—the jigsaw classroom, that entails positive goal and resource interdependence—to two control conditions: one that involves cooperation with resource independence, and the other that remains business-as-usual. This article focuses on the differential development of perceived social competences of adolescent boys and girls over time, comparing the three pedagogical methods. Results of longitudinal multilevel modeling replicate the gender gap in perceived social competences and show that this gap widens with time. However, and most importantly, the analyses revealed that such widening of the gender gap was greater in the two control conditions than in the jigsaw condition, in which the evolution of boys’ and girls’ perceptions of social competences remained similar over time. Contributions to the understanding of the development and teaching of social competences in education settings are discussed.