Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 1 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 4 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 7 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 16 |
Descriptor
Mixed Age Grouping | 17 |
Grade 1 | 13 |
Elementary School Students | 10 |
Foreign Countries | 9 |
Grade 2 | 8 |
Grade 3 | 8 |
Teaching Methods | 8 |
Interviews | 6 |
Elementary School Teachers | 5 |
Observation | 4 |
Academic Achievement | 3 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Kozikoglu, Ishak | 2 |
Ariana Garrote | 1 |
Baguley, Margaret | 1 |
Barton, Georgina | 1 |
Bers, Marina Umaschi | 1 |
Brigitte Hepberger | 1 |
Broome, Jeffrey L. | 1 |
Cady, Karin | 1 |
Carter, Paula | 1 |
Celina Nesme | 1 |
Cokuk, Kayahan | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 17 |
Reports - Research | 13 |
Reports - Descriptive | 4 |
Education Level
Grade 1 | 17 |
Elementary Education | 16 |
Early Childhood Education | 13 |
Primary Education | 13 |
Grade 2 | 11 |
Grade 3 | 11 |
Kindergarten | 4 |
Grade 4 | 3 |
Intermediate Grades | 3 |
Grade 5 | 2 |
Grade 6 | 2 |
More ▼ |
Audience
Administrators | 1 |
Teachers | 1 |
Location
Massachusetts | 2 |
Australia | 1 |
California | 1 |
Canada | 1 |
Colombia (Bogota) | 1 |
Florida | 1 |
Massachusetts (Boston) | 1 |
Michigan | 1 |
Portugal | 1 |
Sweden | 1 |
Switzerland | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Ariana Garrote; Marion Diener; Brigitte Hepberger; Susanne Kuratli Geeler; Celina Nesme; Elisabeth Moser Opitz – Educational Psychology, 2024
The study examines the influence of teacher feedback in the relationship between peer rejection and student level predictors of rejection. Feedback on academic performance and social behaviour recorded during a standardised lesson was analysed for each of 36 Grade 1-3 classes (N = 709). Student social behaviour, academic achievement, and language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics
Çökük, Kayahan; Kozikoglu, Ishak – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine school readiness of primary school students in mixed-age classrooms. The sample of this study, using embedded mixed method design, consists of 909 first grade students in primary school and 30 primary school teachers determined by stratified purposeful sampling method. In this study, "Primary School…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Elementary School Students, Mixed Age Grouping, Grade 1
Wargo, Jon M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2021
Drawing on data from a multi-sited study examining making and makerspace technologies' impact on early social studies education, this article explores how two 1st-grade children mobilized digital media to write (right) a personal issue of geo-civic injustice. Using speculative civic literacies and sound studies as conceptual tools to interrogate…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Studies, Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods
Knoll, Tara – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
English Language Learners, such as my Hutterian students, struggle to overcome a variety of learning barriers. I examined a variety of instructional methods to determine what would help them. The first aspect I explored was how English Language Learners acquire literacy skills. I also investigated how to expand my students' background knowledge.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Barriers, Teaching Methods
Cokuk, Kayahan; Kozikoglu, Ishak – Research in Pedagogy, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine school adaptation problems of primary school students according to teachers' opinions. In this study, embedded mixed method design was used. The sample of this study consists of 909 first grade primary school students and 30 classroom teachers determined by stratified purposeful sampling method.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mixed Age Grouping, Student Adjustment, Classroom Environment
Broome, Jeffrey L. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2016
Multi-age classrooms feature the intentional grouping of students from consecutive grade levels for the purpose of fostering a nurturing classroom atmosphere. While an abundance of research on multi-age education has been produced throughout the past 50 years, only recent efforts have seen researchers turn their attention to the experiences of art…
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Observation, Comparative Analysis, Mixed Age Grouping
Sandberg, Gunilla – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2017
This article reports and discusses findings from an ethnographic case study, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of how different children perceive their learning environment in the first grade of primary school, with regard to social as well as academic aspects. The theoretical framework is based on an interactional perspective, where…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Educational Environment, Ethnography, Inclusion
Ferreira, Maria Eduarda; Porteiro, Ana Cláudia; Pitarma, Rui – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The Environmental Studies curricular area, taught at primary school level in Portugal, is a challenging context for curricular interdisciplinarity and the achievement of small-scale research and creative and innovative experiences, inside and outside the classroom. From that assumption, we present, under the master course of primary teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education, Science Teachers
Danish, Joshua Adam; Saleh, Asmalina – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
It is common practice in elementary science classrooms to have students create representations, such as drawings, as a way of exploring new content. While numerous studies suggest the benefits of representation in science, the majority focus on specific, canonical representations, such as graphs. Few offer insight or guidance regarding how…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Learning Strategies
Elkin, Mollie; Sullivan, Amanda; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2014
This paper explores how robotics can be used as a new educational tool in a Montessori early education classroom. It presents a case study of one early educator's experience of designing and implementing a robotics curriculum integrated with a social science unit in her mixed-age classroom. This teacher had no prior experience using robotics in…
Descriptors: Robotics, Montessori Method, Case Studies, Curriculum Development
Barton, Georgina; Baguley, Margaret – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Literate practice in the arts encompasses both aesthetics and creativity. It is also multimodal in nature and often collaborative. This article presents data collected from a small multi-age school, with children from Prep to Year 7, during their preparation for an end-of-year show. The children had studied the topics of conservation and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Learning Modalities, Mentors
Niño Santisteban, Liliana – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
This research study analyzes the literacy and foreign langauge processes of learners in the "Procesos Básicos" Program. The participants were 15 Spanish-speaking children and young adolescents, whose highest level of education was first grade. Eight of the 15 children were Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and the others were affected…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Literacy, Spanish Speaking, Children
Marley, Scott C.; Szabo, Zsuzsanna; Levin, Joel R.; Glenberg, Arthur M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2011
The authors examined an activity-based listening strategy with first- and third-grade children in mixed-grade dyads. On the basis of theories of cognitive development and previous research, the authors predicted the following: (a) children in an activity-based strategy would recall more story events compared with those in a repetition strategy and…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Imagery, Prediction, Memory
Nyoni, Tsitsi; Nyoni, Mika – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2012
The research looks at the phenomenon of composite classes as experienced by the Murezi community. To gather the required data and to have an in-depth understanding of the Murezi school experience, the case study was employed and the questionnaire, interview and on-site observations were employed as data gathering instruments. The three were used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Age Grouping, Case Studies, Questionnaires
Sims, David – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
The California class size reduction program provided schools with cash rewards for K-3 classes of 20 or fewer students. I show how program rules made it possible for schools to save money by using mixed-grade classes to meet class size reduction obligations while maintaining larger average class sizes. I also show that this smoothing of students…
Descriptors: Class Size, Scores, Rewards, Teaching Experience
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1 | 2