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Direct linkGuzel-Ozmen, Ruya – Exceptional Children, 2006
This study investigated the effectiveness of Modified Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Writing (CSIW) with mildly mentally retarded students' skills in writing problem/solution texts. Participants were from two self-contained and multiage classrooms in Turkey. Instruction had a positive impact on the amount of time students spent planning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Mental Retardation, Mixed Age Grouping, Writing Strategies
Sheppard, N. Alan – 1983
A study identified the competencies needed by and the inservice problems of vocational teachers involved in teaching disadvantaged students in self-contained classrooms. During the study, each of the 100 vocational education teachers instructing disadvantaged learners in state/federally funded self-contained programs for the disadvantaged in…
Descriptors: Competence, Disadvantaged, Educational Needs, Inservice Teacher Education
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
This minireport deals specifically with one classroom environment variable, the physical structure of the classroom as an open-space or a self-contained room. The data for the analyses were drawn from 190 primary grade classes (grades 1-6) and 182 intermediate grade classes (grades 4-6). Classes were analyzed as units, using class means. A total…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Covariance, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis
Download full textClemenz, Sean E. – 2002
This action research study examined how peer tutoring of students with disabilities causes changes in the attitudes of high school peer tutors. Data were gathered through surveys, interviews, and open-ended questions completed by 18 high school peer tutors. Results showed that the peer tutors involved held positive attitudes and beliefs toward…
Descriptors: Action Research, Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities
Keefe, Elizabeth B.,Ed.; Moore, Veronica M., Ed.; Duff, Frances R., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2006
What's the best way to find out what really works--and doesn't work--in education for students with disabilities? Listen to the experts: the students themselves. In this one-of-a-kind book, students with a wide range of disabilities give readers a rare inside look at their past and present school experiences, both in self-contained classrooms and…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Teaching Methods, Essays, Self Contained Classrooms
Peer reviewedGriffin, Cynthia C.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1995
This study examined whether graphic organizer instruction would facilitate comprehension, recall, and information transfer, and how much explicit instruction was necessary for independent generation of graphic organizers. Fifth graders read social studies information with or without graphic organizers and explicit instruction. Explicitness and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advance Organizers, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Donne, Vicki J.; Zigmond, Naomi – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2008
An observational study of reading instruction, using the MS-CISSAR protocol, was conducted in general education classrooms, resource classrooms, and self-contained special education/deaf education classrooms in Grades 1 through 4 in public schools within the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Participants were 24 students who…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Partial Hearing, Deafness, Grade 1
Thomas, Robert G. – 1993
In the spirit of educational reform, this paper discusses school restructuring and proposes a model for making education more responsive to the needs of urban youth by fostering competence built upon unique cultural resources and individual skills already possessed. The proposed project would target the middle school, which is considered an ideal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Core Curriculum, Futures (of Society)
Kramer, Linda R. – 1987
A study gathered quantitative and qualitative data on the cognitive and affective outcomes for gifted students (grades 3-6) in full- and part-time programs from three classrooms in each of two neighboring school districts, one urban and one rural. While the belief emerged in both districts that the full-time program served the needs of gifted…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education
Kramer, Linda R. – 1987
A study gathered quantitative and qualitative data on the cognitive and affective outcomes for gifted students (grades 3-6) in full- and part-time programs from three classrooms in each of two neighboring school districts, one urban and one rural. Results suggested that outcomes are affected by the goal structures of classrooms and that the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Competition, Cooperation, Educational Objectives
Gehrke, Nathalie J.; And Others – 1982
The relationships between schools' physical environments and the teachers who work in them were explored. Eleven middle school teachers were interviewed about their orientation toward and operation in their schools. They were asked what they thought were their schools' most important features, how they felt about the buildings, what were its good…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Boyles, Marion P.; And Others – 1969
The effectiveness of the instructional team approach as opposed to the self-contained classroom approach was investigated by the Atlanta Public School system from 1966-1969 (under a funding by Title I, Public Law 89-10). The achievement levels of first grade and seventh grade pupils were evaluated, using both techniques at each level. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education
Callahan, Carolyn M., Ed.; Reis, Sally M., Ed. – Corwin Press, 2004
The readings in this ready-reference report on specific program evaluations, offer critical guidance in the development and utilization of instruments for assessing gifted and talented programs, and are designed to stimulate the discussion of issues surrounding the evaluation of gifted programs. Key features include: (1) Carolyn M. Callahan's…
Descriptors: Gifted, Special Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBergeron, Bette S. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 1993
Study explored differences in conversational power by comparing discourse in whole language and traditional basal second-grade classrooms. Researchers compared the contextual setting and discourse of rug-time during reading instruction in the classrooms. Results suggested two contrasts between teachers' rug-time discourse: imposed versus generated…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Lounsbury, John H. – 1988
A comparative investigation of the place of the sixth grade in public education used a shadow study technique to address three questions: (1) What is a sixth grader's day in school like? (2) In what ways do programs provided for sixth graders differ, depending on where the grade is located in the school system? (3) How does what is known of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Departments, Developmental Programs, Educational Needs
