Then, they select their own partners to make up dyads. Instructors do not direct this process. The second step includes practice exercises so that dyads may try working together in a non threatening situation. Once dyads are convinced that they have made the right choices, they are bound to remain dyads for a specified time. After that period has elapsed, the pairs may choose to separate, and either member works alone, or with another partner, The third step implements the teaching-learning plan.
All students first read text material that usually covers a chapter or unit.
Then before the material is discussed, they take a quiz. While the individual formative tests are being scored, students in their dyadic groups take the same quiz, and the scores of the two quizzes are averaged. The fourth step begins after the errors of the quizzes have been analyzed. At this time instructors know what should be taught and what students have already mastered. To reinforce this idea, students are required to write four related questions from text material.