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Des Moines Public Schools, IA. – 1989
Surveys were conducted to investigate contemporary thought regarding organizational practices at the elementary level, with particular attention to identifying the extent to which departmentalization was supported by research and actually employed in 24 elementary schools in the Midwest and in 41 Des Moines elementary schools. Four committees…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Departments, Educational Environment
Download full textAchilles, C. M., Comp.; Finn, Jeremy D., Comp.; Pate-Bain, Helen, Comp. – 2001
This manual draws together evolving information about how group size influences what the group does and how learning tasks may be designed and employed to accomplish desired outcomes. The manual includes ideas from research on class size and its outcomes; theories of learning and development; and validated experiences of expert educators. It…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Class Size, Classes (Groups of Students), Classroom Design
Ehens, Cynthia; Gates, Jill – 2003
This action research study was designed to improve the academic performance of students with special needs in two elementary school classrooms in a parochial school setting. Cooperative learning and curriculum modifications were selected as interventions. Cooperative groups were formed which emphasized teamwork and communication with assigned…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Action Research, Class Organization
North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks. Center for Teaching and Learning. – 1975
This paper contains the three sets of interviews (the Children's Interview, the Parent's Interview, and the Teacher's Interview) used to describe and evaluate the classroom learning environments in the New School's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) during 1971-72. The purpose of these interviews is to systematically study variations in the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Phares, Barbara Georgeson – 1997
This study examined the effects of grouping students by ability or achievement on middle school students' academic achievement. Mathematics achievement scores from the California Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) were obtained from 25 seventh graders randomly selected from a group of 80 who had received instruction in an ability-grouped setting for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning
Logan, Lloyd; And Others – 1986
Assembled from perceptual data gathered from questionnaires, this report outlines teachers' and administrators' opinions based on their first year's experience teaching handwriting (the Beginner's Alphabet) to first grade children using a new syllabus. Nine supporting tables are included and response statistics are detailed (Appendix 1 contains…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Class Organization, Course Evaluation
