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The Effects of Differentiated Instruction and Enrichment Pedagogy on Reading Achievement in Five Elementary Schools
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Reis, Sally M.; McCoach, D. Betsy; Little, Catherine A.; Muller, Lisa M.; Kaniskan, R. Burcu – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
This experimental study examined the effect of a differentiated, enriched reading program on students' oral reading fluency and comprehension using the schoolwide enrichment model-reading (SEM-R). Treatment and control conditions were randomly assigned to 63 teachers and 1,192 second through fifth grade students across five elementary schools.…
Descriptors: Group Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Programs
A Factorial Study of Tutoring versus Classroom Instruction
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Bausell, R. Barker; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1972
Tutored Ss displayed significantly greater achievement gains than Ss instructed in a classroom setting when time, the curricula, and teacher differences were held constant. (Authors)
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students
Short Circuits or Superconductors? Effects of Group Composition on High-Achieving Students' Science Assessment Performance.
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Webb, Noreen M.; Nemer, Kariane Mari; Zuniga, Stephen – American Educational Research Journal, 2002
Studied the effects of group ability composition (homogeneous versus heterogeneous) on group processes and outcomes for high-ability students completing science assessments. Results for 83 high ability students show the quality of group functioning serves as the strongest predictor of high-ability students' performance and explained much of the…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Group Dynamics, Group Instruction, High Achievement
Effects of Whole Class, Ability Grouped, and Individualized Instruction on Mathematics Achievement.
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Slavin, Robert E.; Karweit, Nancy L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1985
Achievement and attitudinal effects of three mathematics instruction methods directed in varying degrees toward accommodating diversity in student performance levels were compared in two randomized field experiments with third- through sixth-grade classes. Treatments included Team Assisted Individualization, Ability Group Active Teaching, the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Group Instruction
Generative Teaching: An Enhancement Strategy for the Learning of Economics in Cooperative Groups.
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Kourilsky, Marilyn; Wittrock, Merlin C. – American Educational Research Journal, 1992
Increasing the learning of economics among 76 public high school seniors from lower socioeconomic levels by teaching them to use generative comprehension procedures in cooperative learning groups was attempted. Comparison with 66 controls indicated facilitative effects of generative teaching in increasing confidence in correctness of answers and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Cooperative Learning, Disadvantaged Youth