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EJ522378 TM519396
Title: Cognitive and Noncognitive Effects of Multigrade and Multi-Age Classes: A Best-Evidence Synthesis.Author(s): Veenman, Simon
Source: Review of Educational Research, v65 n4 p319-81 Win 1995
Publication Date: 1995
ISSN: 0034-6543
Language: English
Document Type: Information Analysis (070); Journal articles (080)
Journal Announcement: CIJAUG1996
This article
reviews the best evidence concerning the cognitive and noncognitive
effects of multigrade (students of more than one grade taught by
one teacher) and multiage (students grouped for expected benefits)
classrooms. Studies of noncognitive, cognitive, and achievement
effects reveal no adverse effects of learning in such classrooms.
(SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; Affective Behavior; Age Differences;
*Cognitive Processes; Elementary Education; *Grouping (Instructional
Purposes); Instructional Effectiveness; Learning; Meta Analysis;
*Mixed Age Grouping; *Multigraded Classes; *Outcomes of Education
Identifiers: *Best Evidence Synthesis; *Noncognitive Attributes
