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Download full textSantmire, Toni E.; Giraud, Gerald; Grosskopf, Kristin – 1999
This paper examines educational environments that promote learning and explores the ways that such environments produce differentially positive results. It is based on a study that investigated the effects of a theoretically based social-constructivist approach to education, in contrast to the more classroom-based "abstract" instruction used in…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Demonstration Programs, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation
Easting, G. – Adult Education (London), 1979
Describes an experimental program at the University of Surrey (England) to show children that education can be enjoyable and is not necessarily the regimented, apprehensive affair from which many suffer. The existing teenage program was extended to include younger children and school-vacation day programs were added to the evening classes. (MF)
Descriptors: Community Education, Day Programs, Educational Attitudes, Educational Environment
FOX, DAVID J. – 1967
THIS SHORT-TERM EVALUATION OF THE MORE EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS (MES) PROGRAM IN 21 NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ASSESSED THE MES INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE STUDENTS. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM (1) OBSERVATIONAL VISITS TO CLASSROOMS BY TWO-MEMBER TEAMS OF EDUCATORS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, (2) STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WITH…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Arithmetic, Attitudes
