Two Heads Not Always Better Than One: “Learning to solve a problem as part of a twosome and learning on your own produce different benefits, a Penn State researcher has found and he says these differences can be exploited to enhance cooperative learning strategies, decision support systems for corporate managers or on line courses.” The research focusd on defining situations in which group or individual problem-solving might have an advantage, but there’s no mention of something that seems abvious to me — that certain people may do better with one strategy or the other depending on their innate characteristics.
