"Julia N. Visor" wrote: > We have worked with leaderless study groups and found that they can work if > the students in the study group are trained to understand and practice > successful collaborative group skills (e.g., task and maintenance functions, > sharing of responsibility, individual accountability). > > We have two types of study groups -- facililtated and unfacilitated. As Julia > said, both can be successful; however, we have found that the facilitated > groups generally have a higher collective course GPA than those students in > unfacilitated groups. Jim