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Hestenes, Linda L.; Cassidy, Deborah J.; Shim, Jonghee; Hegde, Archana V. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: Quality of care for preschool children in inclusive and noninclusive classrooms was examined in two studies. In Study 1, comparisons across a large sample of classrooms (N = 1, 313) showed that inclusive classrooms were higher than noninclusive classrooms in global quality as well as on two dimensions of quality…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Inclusive Schools
Chan, Tak Cheung; Jarman, Delbert – Principal, 2004
In elementary schools today, most students receive their education in a single classroom from one teacher who is responsible for teaching language arts, social studies, math, and science. The self-contained classroom organization is predicated on the assumption that an elementary school teacher is a Jack (or Jill)-of-all-trades who is equally…
Descriptors: Teachers, Specialization, Language of Instruction, Elementary Schools
Knuth, Richard; Beaudoin, Kathleen M.; Benner, Greg – ERS Spectrum, 2007
This study investigated school administrators' perceptions of the effectiveness of their programs serving students with emotional behavioral disorders (EBD). Specifically, the perceptions of principals in schools that provided self-contained programs were compared to the perceptions of principals in schools without self-contained programs. Also…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders
Lawson, Tracy Reilly; Walsh, Darcy – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2007
Experiment 1 investigated the effects of observational training in a social listener reinforcement game on participants' conversational units in non-instructional settings. Experiment 2 tested the effects of multiple exemplar instruction on the development of "empathy." The participants who had reader/writer levels of verbal behavior were selected…
Descriptors: Group Instruction, Verbal Stimuli, Reinforcement, Instructional Effectiveness
Engagement during Reading Instruction for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Public Schools
Donne, Vicki; Zigmond, Naomi – American Annals of the Deaf, 2008
An observational study of reading instruction was conducted in general education, resource, and self-contained classrooms, grades 1-4, in public schools. Participants included students who were deaf or hard of hearing and their reading teachers. Results indicated that time engaged in reading and/or academically responding varied significantly by…
Descriptors: Public Schools, General Education, Partial Hearing, Deafness
Kitano, Margie K.; Lewis, Rena B. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2007
This article describes a study designed to examine the relationship of tutoring in specific reading comprehension strategies to gains in reading achievement for children enrolled in self-contained classrooms for gifted students from low-income, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and heterogeneous with respect to reading achievement.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Academically Gifted, Inferences
Rogers, Luther H.; Breivogel, William F. – Florida Educational Research and Development Council Research Bulletin, 1968
This paper discusses research findings applicable to the nongraded plan of school organization (also referred to as ungraded, continuous progress, multigraded, multiaged, and ungraded primary unit). The introduction notes a rapidly increasing movement toward nongrading and defines the concept. Part 1, presents the case for and against nongrading…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Nongraded Instructional Grouping, School Organization, Self Contained Classrooms
Lueders-Salmon, Erika – 1972
This investigation assesses the environment of the elementary child experience, rather than his academic achievement or personal adjustment. Subjects included 22 collegiate teams in 11 open space schools, and 11 teachers in 7 self-contained classrooms. In each self-contained classroom, a minimum of 15 observations was made (five each of reading,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Open Education, Self Contained Classrooms
Brunetti, Frank A.; And Others – Interchange, 1972
Three studies conducted by the Environment for Teaching Program of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching are reported. (BB)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Education, Open Plan Schools, Self Contained Classrooms

Schubert, Nancy A.; Baxter, Milton B. – Education, 1982
States open education results from an educational philosophy (not spatial manipulation), whereby the whole child may be developed mentally, emotionally, and socially. Suggests inherent advantages of the self-contained classroom provide a viable environment for open education. (AH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Philosophy, Nontraditional Education, Open Plan Schools
Manwaring, Joanne S. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
The scope of this article is to discuss the impact of underrepresentation of girls in separate, self-contained special education classes for preschool children in a large school district in the southeastern United States. On a regular basis, preschool girls identified with special needs are being placed in self-contained classes where there they…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Disabilities, Preschool Children
Keohane, Dolleen-Day; Luke, Nicole; Greer, R. Douglas – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
We tested the effect of a Rotated Protocol Immersion package on the emergence of observing responses as prerequisites for more complex verbal developmental capabilities. Three elementary aged students between the ages of 6 and 7 participated. They were diagnosed with autism spectrum disabilities. The treatment condition consisted of total…
Descriptors: Child Development, Verbal Development, Autism, Attention
Spriggs, Amy D.; Gast, David L.; Ayres, Kevin M. – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2007
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using picture activity schedule books to increase on-schedule and on-task behaviors of children with moderate intellectual disabilities. Four students enrolled in a self-contained classroom participated in the study. Graduated guidance, system of least prompts, and verbal prompting…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intervals, Stimulus Generalization, Self Contained Classrooms
VanDruff, John C. – Adult Leadership, 1974
Descriptors: Adult Education, Individualized Instruction, Learning Activities, Learning Laboratories
LAMBERT, PHILIP; AND OTHERS – 1964
EXPLORED ARE TEACHING AND LEARNING RELATIONSHIPS OR FORMS OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN THE TEAM TEACHING ARRANGEMENT, AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THESE AND TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM INTERACTION WITH RESPECT TO STUDENT ADJUSTMENT AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO IMPROVE THE SOPHISTICATION OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS. A 2-YEAR TEAM…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Self Contained Classrooms, Student Adjustment