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Direct linkEggleston, Jessica – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Elementary students spend an average of five and a quarter hours per day seated on a hard surface which provides little sensory input and possibly contributes to discomfort. Sensory integration was found to improve executive functioning skills in elementary students by helping their comfort level at being seated. This quasi-experimental study…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Class Organization, Elementary School Students, Attention
Peer reviewedParker, Audra; Rakes, Lori; Arndt, Katie – Educational Forum, 2017
Recent trends indicate a move away from self-contained classrooms and toward content-focused departmentalization in elementary schools. This study takes a snapshot of the existing organizational structures used in elementary schools in one district and explores administrators' beliefs and practices regarding this phenomenon. Our findings suggest…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Organization, School Administration, Decision Making
Download full textChen, Victoria – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
Education is meant to open your mind, but is that what universities are really doing? Rather than fostering open-minded thinking, the format of lecturing, the lack of interaction among students and instructors, and the passive nature of learning are likely producing the opposite, students with closed-minds. The development and implementation of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Undergraduate Students, Classroom Environment
McClendon, Thomas K. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study examined the relationship between the structural classroom environment (self-contained, team-taught, and departmentalized) and student performance on the 2014 Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) in reading, Language Arts, mathematics, science, and social studies in grades three through five. A secondary purpose examined…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Statistical Analysis
Mitchell, Viola T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if classroom configuration--departmentalized and self-contained--is related to the academic achievement of Grade 6 students in a large urban school district as measured by California Standards Test (CST) scores in mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) when controlling for prior academic…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Classroom Environment, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Hanson, Gordon – 1973
The seventh in a series of reports dealing with accountability, this bibliography provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the body of literature, from theoretical model design to the effects of specific factors such as student's self-concept, reinforcement, socioeconomic status, etc. The citations are divided into three categories.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests
