EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 15 page 374

Figure 15.8: Jigsaw. This diagram shows how jigsaw works.

Step 1. Initial groups are formed. Each group becomes expert on a different set of evidence bearing on

whether William Shakespeare really wrote the plays that are credited to him. There are six groups. (Each

student is represented by a letter. Student A1 is the first student in Group A, Student A2 is the second

student in Group A, and so on.) The students in each group become experts on their evidence set as they

study and discuss their evidence set.

A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 C3 D1 D2 D3

A4 A5 A6 B4 B5 B6 C4 C5 C6 D4 D5 D6

Group A Group B Group C Group D

Step 2. Now new groups are formed.

Each group has one expert from Group A,

one expert from Group B, one expert from

Group C, and one expert from Group D.

(The arrows show where the members of

one group—Group 6—came

from. Other groups are formed in the same way.)

Collectively, then, each group has information from all

four evidence sets available to reach a judgment about

whether Shakespeare really wrote Shakespeare’s plays.

A1 B1 A2 B2 A3 B3 A4 B4 A5 B5 A6 B6

C1 D1 C2 D2 C3 D3 C4 D4 C5 D5 C6 D6

Evidence
set A.

Evidence

set B.

Evidence

set C.

Evidence

set d.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6