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Butler, Abby – Contributions to Music Education, 1998
Attempts to determine if classroom environment is different between single-grade and multigrade primary-school music classrooms. Findings suggest that children in multigrade classrooms are more satisfied, experience less friction, and perceive music class as less difficult than peers in single-grade classes. Discusses educational implications.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Heterogeneous Grouping, Multigraded Classes
Peer reviewedPratt, David – Research in Rural Education, 1986
Summarizes evidence from experimental research, ethnology, anthropology, and history about merits of multiage classrooms. Indicates studies show no consistent benefits of age segregation and some affective and social advantages from multiage grouping. Concludes that multiage and multigrade classrooms are socially and psychologically healthy…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedVeenman, Simon; And Others – Educational Studies, 1987
Investigated how students and teachers in mixed-age classes spent their learning time during reading, language arts, and mathematics. No significant differences between single- and multi-aged classes was found. Concludes that teachers found working in mixed-age classes very difficult, with most working as if they were teaching two different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Download full textDeBord, Karen B.; Reguero de Atiles, Julia T. – 1991
This study examined the perceptions of teachers experienced in working with mixed-age groups in child care settings for children from birth through age 12. A mixed-age group was defined as one with children having at least a two-year range in age. Questionnaires were mailed to 92 licensed family child care and school-age child care providers in…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Day Care
Gayfer, Margaret, Ed. – 1991
Questionnaires were developed to get demographic, administrative, and pedagogical information from both rural and urban districts. Replies were received from 89.9 percent of the superintendents or directors of education, 83 percent of the principals of schools with multigraded classrooms, and 80 percent of the teachers of multigraded classes. An…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Educational Trends
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Research, Planning and Evaluation. – 1981
The purpose of the Meeting Students' Needs in the Multiage Group Environment (MSN) program was to provide an instructional system to meet the needs of elementary school students of differing achievement, age, and grade level who are in the same classroom. The program, for kindergarten through grade six, was characterized by an innovative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education
Politano, Colleen; Davies, Anne – 1994
As the world becomes more diverse socially, culturally, and economically, there are growing expectations that the individual's differences and rights will be recognized, respected, and responded to in positive ways. This book provides teachers of both multi-age and diverse single-age classrooms guidance on classroom organization, curriculum…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
