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Mallett, Jan Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Elementary education has theoretical underpinnings based on cognitive psychology. Ideas from cognitive psychologists such as James, Dewey, Piaget, and Vygotsky coalesce to form constructivism (Cooper, 1993; Yager, 2000; Yilmaz, 2011). Among others, the Montessori Method (1912/1964) is an exemplar of constructivism. Currently, public education in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Elementary School Students
Peng, Hsin-Hui – ProQuest LLC, 2009
There are two purposes of the current study. First was to examine whether or not children in the elementary school in Taiwan who had received Montessori early childhood education obtain significantly higher scores on tests of language arts, math, and social studies than children who attended non-Montessori pre-elementary programs. Second one was…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Grade 3