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Download full textFiedler-Brand, Ellen; Lange, Richard E.; Winebrenner, Susan – 1992
This brief bulletin addresses seven "myths" of tracking or ability grouping with gifted students in response to what is seen as a current movement against both ability grouping and tracking, which are characterized by the "anti-tracking" movement as inflexible and unaccommodating of a varied schedule. The following myths are countered: (1)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCarroll, Pamela Sissi; Corder, Kathy – ALAN Review, 1997
Examines a literature and reading research project involving an English education professor, a middle-school teacher, and her gifted seventh-grade students. Suggests that the class's homogeneity was a deterrent in the learning process and that students need more opportunities for independent and group research that requires extensive problem…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, English Instruction, Gifted
