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Direct linkKim, Kyung Hee; VanTassel-Baska, Joyce; Bracken, Bruce A.; Feng, Annie; Stambaugh, Tamra; Bland, Lori – Research in Science Education, 2012
The purpose of the study was to measure the effects of higher level, inquiry-based science curricula on students at primary level in Title I schools. Approximately 3,300 K-3 students from six schools were assigned to experimental or control classes (N = 115 total) on a random basis according to class. Experimental students were exposed to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), Intelligence Tests, Ability Grouping
Download full textMellor, Warren – 1973
Procedures that have been developed for switching from a graded to a nongraded pattern of school organization have frequently failed to live up to their expectations. There appears to be a need for more clearly defined procedures and purposeful innovation as distinct from change for its own sake. Nongrading should serve to provide alternative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classes (Groups of Students), Curriculum, Elementary Education
MILLER, MARIAN B. – 1961
THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO EVALUATE THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRESS OF CHILDREN IN AN UNGRADED PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM. THE EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS WERE SIX GROUPS OF CHILDREN WHO WERE COMPARED WITH STUDENTS IN THE SAME SCHOOL OPERATING IN A TRADITIONAL GRADED SYSTEM. DATA WERE GATHERED THROUGH (1) TEACHER OBSERVATION OF PUPIL HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Educational Research
Kirshenbaum, Howard – Teacher, 1973
Author holds that no educational research has ever shown that grades are helpful to children or to learning. He also lists eight major criticisms of the traditional grading system. (GB)
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Continuous Progress Plan, Grading, Nongraded Instructional Grouping
Peer reviewedRamayya, D. P. – Psychology in the Schools, 1972
The major finding of the study indicates that the nongraded program was more beneficial to boys than to girls with respect to attainment of reading skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), Classroom Environment, Educational Environment
Educational Service Region of Cook County, Chicago, IL. – 1973
This periodical is designed to disseminate information pertaining to exemplary innovative programs in Cook County, Illinois. Programs discussed in this issue are: (1) a child care program for female high school students; (2) interpretation of history-literature, a class for gifted sophomores; (3) pre-kindergarten service to children with…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), County Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Innovation
Rogers, R. S. – 1969
A summary of published reports of the evolution of the "Draw-A-Classroom" Test developed by the Toronto Board of Education is presented along with an extension of the previous literature reviews, an extensive bibliography, and a critical commentary on the test itself. Children's drawings of their classroom are evaluated as a form of…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Childhood Attitudes, Classes (Groups of Students), Classroom Observation Techniques
Peer reviewedWylie, Richard E.; Zotos, Michael – New England Reading Association Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Individualized Instruction, Nongraded Instructional Grouping, Primary Education
Surry County Board of Education, Dobson, NC. – 1969
Evaluation of this ESEA Title III project was based on four procedures: parent evaluation, student evaluation, teacher evaluation, and evaluation of a report by the visiting committee from the state department of public instruction. Two elementary schools in Surry County, North Carolina, have been operating under the Title III Grant since its…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Curriculum Development, Educational Programs, Evaluation
Biller, Julian; Meredith, William – 1970
The Robert C. Markham Elementary School represents a joint Federal-local effort to educate children of migrant workers. The school provides a specially designed, in-school compensatory program, which views the child as an individual. Markham School is nongraded and emphasizes team teaching approaches. Children enter the school at age five and…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
CLARKE, EUNICE A. – 1968
THIS EXPLORATORY STUDY EXAMINED THE WAYS IN WHICH DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN ARE ASSESSED FOR PLACEMENT AND REGROUPING IN AN UNGRADED PRIMARY UNIT. THE STUDY ALSO ATTEMPTED TO FIND OUT WHETHER THE ADMINISTRATION AND TEACHERS HAD PRECONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE CHILD. FINDINGS ARE BASED ON SURVEYS OF THE DIRECTIVES AND PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT,…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Administrator Attitudes, Bibliographies, Blacks
Gibbs, Gloria G. – 1975
The primary objective of this study was to encourage teacher education programs to further the knowledge of the principles, modes of teaching, learning styles, and organization of open education. Procedures used in conducting the study were (1) an analysis of the literature reflecting a theorectical framework within which the components of open…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Classroom Design, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Otto, Henry J.; And Others – 1969
Nongradedness is a type of internal organization for a school that groups students on the basis of an intergrade plane. This approach attempts to adapt instruction to individual differences. Grouping principles include physical factors, social maturity and personality factors, mental maturity, academic status, and teacher personality within the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Arithmetic, Bibliographies
Snake River School District 52, Blackfoot, ID. – 1972
A project undertaken by the Snake River School District, Blackfoot, Idaho provided children with an educational experience geared to their individual needs. The project was designed to assure that they made continuous progress in subject matter areas such as reading and math and toward the development of a positive self-concept. A team leader,…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Continuous Progress Plan, Differentiated Staffs, Elementary School Mathematics
Mobley, Charles F. – 1976
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of multiage and homogeneous age methods of grouping pupils for classroom instruction in the primary department of Beaverbrook Elementary School in Griffin, Georgia. Results were expected to aid the staff in developing a more comprehensive and functional nongraded school. The controlled variable…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
