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- Develops higher level thinking skills
- Promotes student-faculty interaction and familiarity
- Increases student retention
- Builds self esteem in students
- Enhances student satisfaction with the learning experience
- Promotes a positive attitude toward the subject matter
- Develops oral communication skills
- Develops social interaction skills
- Promotes positive race relations
- Creates an environment of active, involved, exploratory learning
- Uses a team approach to problem solving while maintaining individual accountability
- Encourages diversity understanding
- Encourages student responsibility for learning
- Involves students in developing curriculum and class procedures
- Students explore alternate problem solutions in a safe environment
- Stimulates critical thinking and helps students clarify ideas through discussion and debate
- Enhances self management skills
- Fits in well with the constructivist approach
- Establishs an atmosphere of cooperation and helping schoolwide
- Students develop responsibility for each other
- Builds more positive heterogeneous relationships
- Encourages alternate student assessment techniques
- Fosters and develops interpersonal relationships
- Modelling problem solving techniques by students' peers
- Students are taught how to criticize ideas, not people
- Sets high expectations for students and teachers
- Promotes higher achievement and class attendance .
- Students stay on task more and are less disruptive
- Greater ability of students to view situations from others' perspectives (development of empathy)
- Creates a stronger social support system
- Creates a more positive attitude toward teachers, principals and other school personnel by students and creates a more positive attitude by teachers toward their students
- Addresses learning style differences among students
- Promotes innovation in teaching and classroom techniques
- Classroom anxiety is significantly reduced
- Test anxiety is significantly reduced
- Classroom resembles real life social and employment situations
- Students practice modeling societal and work related roles
- CL is synergystic with writing across the curriculum
- CL activities can be used to personalize large lecture classes
- Skill building and practice can be enhanced and made less tedious through CL activities in and out of class.
- CL activities promote social and academic relationships well beyond the classroom and individual course
- CL processes create environments where students can practice building leadership skills.
- CL increases leadership skills of female students
- In colleges where students commute to school and do not remain on campus to participate in campus life activities, CL creates a community environment within the classroom.
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