The purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the progress of student performance in reading and writing for 2 years in mixed-age classrooms as compared to students in traditional classrooms. The 471 subjects evaluated in the study were those who completed their first 2 …
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This investigation replicated and extended a study conducted by Medina (1990). The study examined the effect of music on the acquisition and retention of story vocabulary for kindergarten and first grade students in a selected school in eastern Pennsylvania. A second factor, the…
The National Center for Fair and Open Testing has estimated that every American child takes as many as three standardized tests during the school year (Neill and Medina, 1989). Standardized tests drive curricula and dictate classroom instruction (Gifford, 1990). Also, tests are …
Research shows that the language Immersion Method, where children are taught entirely in the target language, is among the best ways to learn a second language (Curtain and Haas, 1995). The five year time frame between ages 3-8 is the crucial time to teach young children a secon…
Ms. Cowhey, I have a text to world connection!-Gabriella, first grader, is a critical ethnographic account of a highly successful and nationally visible white teacher, and her first grade students who named themselves the Peace Class during the autumn of 2002 when the United Sta…
In the present study we investigated the relative importance of phonological and orthographic skills in Persian children's reading and spelling development. Persian has a mixed orthography that allows one to study within one language characteristics typically found in shallow or…