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Rosen, Sidney; Powell, Evan R. – 1974
This document describes a 26-month proposed project to explore, through a multi-factor experimental design, some cognitive and affective consequences on both tutee and the tutor, of classroom reorganization for same-age peer tutoring. College students will serve as subjects. Volunteers from the same course section will be paired. Within each pair…
Descriptors: Class Organization, College Students, Educational Research, Emotional Development
Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, CA. – 1971
To evaluate the Follow Through portion of the Planned Variation program (1967-1970) eight distinct approaches were studied. The approaches rest on differing philosophical and psychological premises and employ a variety of pedagogical strategies. A battery of 14 existing and specially developed measures were used to cover the cognitive area.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Educational Strategies, Measurement Instruments
Crosswhite, F. Joe, Ed. – 1977
Featured in this yearbook are twelve thematic essays that analyze and interpret organizational alternatives for teaching mathematics in the elementary and secondary schools. The following topics are covered: three different models for individualized instruction (Individually Guided Education, a departmental model, and a classroom model),…
Descriptors: Calculators, Class Organization, Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics

Dawson, Margaret M. – School Psychology Review, 1987
This paper discusses negative consequences for students placed in low ability classes and presents some alternative grouping and instructional practices which have been proven effective in heterogeneous classrooms. (LMO)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Classroom Environment
Equity and Choice, 1987
Cooperative learning fosters better student achievement than individualistic methods, increases cross-ethnic friendships, improves students' self-esteem, and creates positive attitudes toward other students and the school. Cooperative learning requires a period of adjustment on the part of teachers and pupils. Six cooperative learning techniques…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Cooperation

Slavin, Robert E. – Journal of Social Issues, 1985
Reviews research on instructional methods designed to operationalize the principal elements of Allport's contact theory of intergroup relations. These cooperative learning methods, which employ ethnically mixed learning groups who are rewarded for learning as a group, have had positive effects on intergroup relations and on the academic…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Intergroup Education

Kerckhoff, Alan C. – American Sociological Review, 1986
Examines the effects of school types and ability grouping within school types on individual student performance. Results demonstrate that students in high ability groups gain more and students in low ability groups gain less over a five-year period than they would be expected had they not been separated into ability groups. (Author/PS)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Advanced Placement

Diamond, Stanley C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1987
Reviews the range of thought concerning the extent to which the student's educational experience should be formally structured and externally imposed or informal and structurally controlled by the student. Recommends allowing students to make choices to the extent that they are comfortable and learning remains functional and effective. (PGD)
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education

Roberts, Tessa – Reading, 1985
Offers suggestions for organizing the primary classroom to provide ideal conditions for teaching reading. (DF)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Learning Strategies
Forsten, Char; Grant, Jim; Johnson, Bob; Richardson, Irv – 1997
"Looping" is a practice that allows single-grade teachers to remain with the same class for 2 or more years. Organized in a question-and-answer format, this book answers 72 questions about looping commonly asked by teachers and parents, including questions about its benefits, disadvantages, and implementation. Chapters include: (1) "What Is…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Elementary Education, Grade Repetition, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Hedges, Lowell E. – 1997
This handbook is designed to help student teachers and beginning teachers handle the "surprises" they encounter on the job. The scenarios in the book identify critical incidents and potential situations teachers are likely to face and offer help in keeping teachers out of unpleasant situations or suggesting courses of action when they find…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
Trusty, Edward M., Jr.; Beckenstein, Stacey – 1996
This study compared cognitive, social, and affective progress of students in a multi-graded classroom and a single-graded classroom. Participating were teachers in kindergarten/first, first, and second grade classrooms and a random sample of their students at two suburban Virginia schools. Five teachers taught in single-graded classrooms and one…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Competence

Cuban,Larry – Theory into Practice, 1983
Historical information about how teachers have taught over the past century was reviewed to determine what patterns of teacher behavior have persisted over time, despite reformers' efforts to change them. Although there were periods of change during the 1920s and the 1960s, teacher-centered instruction reasserted itself after reform efforts…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Conventional Instruction, Educational Change, Educational History
Sherman, Thomas M. – Educational Technology, 1981
Describes the advantages of an ecological and active approach to classroom management, presents an analysis of how such an approach might be developed, and discusses several issues which need to be addressed in order to improve classroom management. Twenty-nine references are listed. (Author/CHC)
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Concept Formation

Rachlis, Lorne – Clearing House, 1981
The administrator of a high school equivalency program discusses the needs and preferences of returning adult students and suggests steps that the school can take to make these students feel comfortable on campus and in the classroom. (SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Students, Class Organization, Counseling