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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
Download full textOpuni, Kwame A.; Koonce, Sharon – 1992
This study evaluated the Primary Learning Communities (PLC) program, a non-graded kindergarten through second-grade alternative curriculum piloted in three Houston, Texas, elementary schools. The curriculum allows a multi-age mixing of students with ages between five and seven years in the same classroom. Approximately 600 students and 27 teachers…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students, Heterogeneous Grouping
Peer reviewedSurbeck, Elaine – Childhood Education, 1992
Although multiage grouping is part of a greater approach to change in education, classroom problems can result when the approach's rationale is not understood. Three precepts of vertical grouping concern heterogeneity of student groups, individualized materials and activities, and a caring learning community. Factors influencing successful…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Heterogeneous Grouping
Peer reviewedHubbard, Ruth Shagoury – Teaching and Learning, 1996
This paper describes a multiage elementary classroom where students can work, learn, and research together. Students ages 6-9 years collaborate on whole-class research inquiries and individual projects. The paper presents examples of these children's work as ethnographers, emphasizing the importance of honoring students' creative abilities. (SM)
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Ethnography
Schack, Gina D. – 1993
This research examines how a developmentally appropriate educational program in the early years can affect the development of gifted children. The qualitative research specifically focused on a multi-age, multi-ability setting with partial implementation of a whole language program, a systematic writing process and with some flexibility in…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Methods, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
Hranitz, John R.; Shanoski, Lorraine A. – 1994
Project Success is a teacher, administrator, and university faculty designed program, aimed to improve teacher motivation and pedagogical skills, student attitudes and achievement, and parent attitudes in science and mathematics education for kindergarten through grade 3. The project used an education program that was self-pacing and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
