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Kartal, Ayça; Güven Demir, Elif – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
This case study compared preservice primary school teachers' and primary school teachers' experiences with multi-grade teaching in the 2018--2019 academic year. The sample consisted of 17 fourth-year students in the department of primary school teaching education of a public university and 14 multigrade teachers from 12 schools in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multigraded Classes, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Debbie Wong; Hilary Hollingsworth; Elizabeth Cassity; Adeola Monty – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2024
The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has created an open-access classroom observation tool based on research conducted for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) Teacher Development Multi-Year Study Series, which studied teaching practices in Timor-Leste, Vanuatu and Lao PDR (see…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Cross Cultural Studies
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Msimanga, Mothofela R. – Africa Education Review, 2020
This article reports on a study that examined teaching and learning in multi-grade classrooms using the Learning Environment, Learning Processes and Learning Outcomes (LEPO) conceptual framework. The study sought to investigate how the learning environment is created; how the processes of teaching and learning take place; and how assessment is…
Descriptors: Multigraded Classes, Cooperative Learning, Individualized Instruction, Educational Environment
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Rasela Tufue; Floraleta Losi – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2024
Composite classes (also known as multigrades) are beneficial in several ways but have challenges for teaching and learning. This study aimed to explore participants' views concerning their experiences in teaching and learning within a composite classroom setting in Samoa. Specifically, the study sought to determine composite classes' impacts on…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Multigraded Classes, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
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Taole, Matshidiso Joyce – South African Journal of Education, 2022
Multi-grade teaching is a widely accepted phenomenon in both developing and developed countries. In this article I report on a phenomenological inquiry into written feedback practices of teachers in multi-grade classrooms and how they described and interpreted their feedback practices pertaining to learners' writing activities in English First…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Multigraded Classes, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Klein, Perry D.; Haug, Katrina N.; Arcon, Nina – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
Argument writing is challenging for elementary students. Previous experimental research has focused on scaffolding rhetorical goals, leaving content goals relatively unexplored. In a randomized experiment, 73 students in grades 5, 6, and 7 wrote persuasive texts about difficult-to-classify vertebrates. Each student received one of three sets of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Cues, Content Area Writing
Danish, Joshua Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Representations such as drawings, graphs, and computer simulations, are central to learning and doing science. Furthermore, ongoing success in science learning requires students to build on the representations and associated practices that they are presumed to have learned throughout their schooling career. Without these practices, students have…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Interviews, Scientific Concepts
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Rieskamp, Jorg – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2006
Retirement savings decisions can be influenced by the fund composition of the retirement savings plan. In 2 experiments, strong composition effects were observed, with a larger percentage of resources being invested in stock funds when more stock than bond funds were offered. Although participants changed their allocations repeatedly, the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Retirement, Multigraded Classes, Class Organization
Neill, Shirley – American Education, 1975
No morning bell is needed at San Diego's Belle Benchley School, where mixed age groups touch things off spontaneously. (Editor)
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Learning Processes