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Peer reviewedDiehl, Daniel S.; Lemerise, Elizabeth A.; Caverly, Sarah L.; Roberts, Julia; Ramsay, Shula – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1998
The contributions of peer acceptance, friendship, social status, and age relative to mixed-age classmates to children's' attitudes toward school and to achievement in ungraded primary school were studied with 323 ungraded elementary school students. Attitudes toward school were positively related to achievement scores. Predictive variables are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedGray, Peter; Feldman, Jay – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Examined age and gender mixing among students, ages 4-19, at an ungraded, self-directed, democratically structured school. Found that age mixing was more frequent for 12- to 15-year-olds than for younger or older students, and that gender mixing was less frequent for 8- to 11-year-olds than for any other age group. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textLauer, Patricia A. – 2000
This report summarizes research literature on multiage classrooms, explaining how they operate, and describes a study of a low-performing, predominantly Native American school district which adopted multiage classrooms as its primary reform strategy. District teachers completed surveys about: planning; collaboration; student groupings and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Age Differences, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Change
Peer reviewedLemerise, Elizabeth A.; Harper, Bridgette D.; Howes, Heidi M. – Early Education and Development, 1998
Studied the longitudinal stability of measures of peer acceptance, social status, and social reputation and the role of children's ages relative to classmates during the transition from same-age kindergarten to mixed-age ungraded primary classes. Found that overall peer acceptance and aggressive social reputation were moderately stable. Half of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Longitudinal Studies
