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Download full textGaustad, Joan – 1995
Multiage grouping and related instructional practices are being implemented with increasing frequency in classrooms across the nation. If implementation is carefully and knowledgeably planned, these innovations offer promising alternatives to traditional graded educational practices. This digest briefly describes issues to be considered before…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cooperative Learning, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Gaustad, Joan – Research Roundup, 1992
Nongraded education is the practice of teaching children of different ages and ability levels together, without dividing them into groups labeled by grade designations. As the year 2000 approaches and schools are being re-evaluated in light of changing social and economic conditions, nongradedness is the focus of renewed interest. This publication…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Grade Placement, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Research
Gaustad, Joan – OSSC Bulletin, 1996
Assessment of student progress is a challenge for educators who use developmentally appropriate practices such as multiage grouping. Interest in alternative types of assessment has become widespread. These performance-based, or authentic, assessments are explored in this document, which presents assessment strategies that work effectively with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Competence, Educational Assessment
Gaustad, Joan – 1997
Multiage education involves placing children of different ages, abilities, and emotional maturity in the same classroom. Research indicates that heterogeneous grouping promotes cognitive and social growth, reduces antisocial behavior, and facilitates the use of research-based, developmentally appropriate instructional practices. Because multiage…
Descriptors: Community Support, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Mixed Age Grouping
Gaustad, Joan – Research Roundup, 1996
Multiage education is the placement of children of varying ages, grades, and ability levels in the same classroom with the aim of improving learning for all of them. Teaching a multiage class requires very different knowledge and skills than teaching traditional single-grade classes. Interest in multiage education has grown in recent years, and…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Classroom Techniques, Continuous Progress Plan, Elementary Secondary Education
Gaustad, Joan – OSSC Bulletin, 1994
This issue of the OSSC Bulletin explores problems encountered in implementing a closely associated group of educational innovations whose adoption has become increasingly common in recent years. This "family" of organizational and instructional practices includes non-age-graded organization, mixed-age grouping, developmentally appropriate…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment, Educational Finance
