Which collaborative-learning method is primarily intended to develop students’…

Concept

Collaborative-learning methods assign learners different participation roles. The intended skill is identified by asking which behaviour the method makes a structural responsibility rather than a secondary activity.

A discussion method develops a skill most directly when some participants must practise that skill continuously, observe the process, and reflect on it.

Application

In the Fishbowl strategy, a small inner circle discusses a topic while an outer circle observes the interaction, records the substance or process, and later responds or exchanges roles.

The dedicated observer role requires sustained, attentive reception of peers’ ideas. This makes the Fishbowl strategy the method whose central design develops listening skills.

Contrast

• Circle of voices gives each participant an allotted turn to speak, so its organizing emphasis is equitable participation and expression.

• Problem solving organizes a group around analysing a defined problem and constructing a solution.

• Fishbowl separates discussants from observers, making close observation of peer discussion an explicit learner role.

• Jigsaw divides material among expert and home groups so that members teach complementary portions and build interdependence.

Cross-check

The method’s physical arrangement itself creates an observing group; that built-in role is the distinguishing feature required by the stem.

Therefore, the answer is Fishbowl strategy.