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Peer reviewedBurns, Robert B.; Mason, DeWayne A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2002
Examined the class distributional properties of 200 elementary school classes in 2 school districts. Fifty-six classes were combination classes of students from 2 grades. Principals and teachers tended to assign higher ability and more independent students to such classes, and these assignments affected the class distributional properties.…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Elementary Education
Download full textMiller, Bruce – 1991
This ERIC digest reviews the history of the multigrade classroom, and summarizes research findings on multigrading effects on achievement and attitude. It also states requirements of teaching and learning in multigrade classrooms. Multigrade classrooms have ranged from the one-room schools of the early 1900s to the ungraded classroom of the 1960s…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Educational History
