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The Effect of Classroom Interaction on Children's Friendships.
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Felmlee, Diane; Hallinan, Maureen T. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 1979
Friendship choices were found to be distributed more evenly in classrooms where greater student interaction is permitted. (JD)
Descriptors: Children, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education
The Effect of the Structural Organization of Classroom on the Cohesiveness of Student Peer Groups.
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Hallinan, Maureen T. – 1973
The effect of organizational characteristics of classrooms on student friendship patterns is examined. Classrooms which vary in architectural settings, grouping procedures and pedagogical techniques are seen to place differential constraints on student interaction and to produce different patterns of relations. A number of hypotheses are tested in…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classification, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Structural Effects on Children's Friendships and Cliques.
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Hallinan, Maureen T. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 1979
The effects of class size, classroom organization, and grade on friendship choice and clique formation were examined using cross-sectional and longitudinal sociometric data. Classroom characteristics affected friendliness and popularity, incidence of cross-sex friendships, number of social isolates per class, and number and size of cliques.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Class Organization, Class Size
The Evolution of Children's Friendship Cliques.
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Hallinan, Maureen T. – 1977
This paper investigates the formation and evolution of friendship cliques among preadolescent youth in elementary and junior high grades 4 through 8. Two sets of data were collected: the first set consisted of cross sectional data from 51 classes (grades 5 through 8); the second set contained sociometric data collected from 11 classes (grades 4…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Class Organization, Class Size