NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Cokuk, Kayahan; Kozikoglu, Ishak – Research in Pedagogy, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine school adaptation problems of primary school students according to teachers' opinions. In this study, embedded mixed method design was used. The sample of this study consists of 909 first grade primary school students and 30 classroom teachers determined by stratified purposeful sampling method.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mixed Age Grouping, Student Adjustment, Classroom Environment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Ricard, Richard J.; Miller, Gale A.; Heffer, Robert W. – School Psychology Review, 1995
Significant developmental differences were found for student adjustment in a study exploring relations between standardized measures of students' achievement and teacher ratings of student adjustment for K-2 students in mixed-age classrooms. Teacher ratings of student adjustment were significantly lower for kindergartners compared to second…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Age Groups
Lodish, Richard – Principal, 1992
Recently, numerous larger schools have tried to capture the potential advantages of a wide age range in their classrooms. The nongraded organizational system recognizes and plans for varied student abilities, provides for different rates of progress, and adjusts to individual emotional and social needs. Both advantages and disadvantages are…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Educational Benefits
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Polyzoi, Eleoussa – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1997
Assessed language quality of 15 four-year olds with three conversational partners: a center-care teacher, an older child, and a younger child. Data coded included number of turns, utterances, gaps, statements versus questions, contingent responses, and amount of self-talk. Found that children take more turns with an adult but produce fewer…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Day Care Centers, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Dunn, Loraine; And Others – Early Education and Development, 1996
Examined how preschoolers' experiences with mixed-age peers in family child care homes affect development. Found that interaction with younger and same-age peers was associated with less complex social and cognitive play and lower receptive language scores. Interaction with older peers was related to more complex cognitive play. The setting…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Child Development, Day Care