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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Ability grouping in education"”.
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The relationship between academic ability and academic achievement of mentally superior children at the seventh and eighth grade level
The purposes of this study were (1) to investigate the relationships between academic aptitude and academic achievement in reading and arithmetic at the seventh and the eighth grade levels in the city schools of Modesto, California, (2) to discuss the discovered relationships in terms of policies …
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How Does Heterogeneous Ability Grouping and Homogeneous Ability Grouping Compare in Academic Growth and in Building Self-Esteem?
In the last few years, educators have questioned the concept of ability grouping. While many schools are still using homogeneous ability grouping of students believing that this is the best way for students to learn and the best way to teach, today there are present challenges to this concept. …
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Types of knowledge valued and Maltese primary teachers’ attitudes towards selection
This study explores some of the underlying reasons why selection by ability is valued amongst Maltese primary teachers. It explores the connection between types of knowledge valued and teachers’ perceptions about selection. The preference of the nine Maltese primary teachers interviewed for this …
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The effects of grouping fourth grade students into cooperative learning groups by learning patterns
… the performance of fourth grade students working in cooperative learning groups. Students worked in three cooperative learning groups in order to determine whether grouping students heterogeneously into cooperative learning groups based on individual students' learning pattern would have a …
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The effects of implementing heterogeneous writing groups in a fifth grade classroom
The purpose of this study was to examine how heterogeneous grouping, particularly in writing, would impact the learning and social community in a fifth grade inclusion classroom. The students were given writing prompts that enforced the use of collaborative writing. Qualitative data was collected …
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A Study of Pupil Self-Concepts in a Three-Track Elementary School
… reader with visual perception problems to determine if the intensive use of visual perceptual training in the use of configuration analysis would improve the subject's reading power.
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A Survey of Teachers’ Attitudes Regarding the Effectiveness of the Nongraded Elementary School
It was the purpose of this study to determine teachers' expressed attitudes regarding the effectiveness of the nongraded elementary school in the state of Washington, as revealed through a questionnaire study.
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An Investigation of Five Methods of Inter-Class Grouping in the Elementary School
… research five (5) methods of elementary school inter-class grouping,which can make available a climate for learning. These five methods are: 1. Graded Elementary School 2. Dual-Progress Plan 3. Departmentalization 4. Non-graded Organization 5. Team Teaching
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Teacher attitudes and the emotionally-behaviourally disordered middle school student
Inclusionary practices prescribe that chl1dren, regardless of exceptional1ty shall benef1t from receiv1ng educational serv1ce 1n the context of the regular class sett1ng. The result1ng el1minat1on of separate spec1al classes could be v1ewed as an econom1c advantage. In point of fact, many school …
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