This paper reviews research on the impact of classroom environments on student behavior,
attitudes, and achievement. The first section examines studies of six environmental …

United States. Among the best known are nongradedness, team teaching, verti cal or
heterogeneous grouping of stu dents, and the use of open space school building design …

A survey of the research published between 1968 and 1961 comparing graded and
nongraded elementary schools has impelled me to share the good news with others in the …

Open classrooms with few rules, individualized instruction, and informal class organization
present new problems for the application of behavior principles. The effects of three types of …

Three studies conducted by the Environment for Teaching Program of the Stanford Center
for Research and Development in Teaching, concerning the effects on teachers and …

Through the voices and pictures of real youngsters, Kindle confronts your children with
questions designed to strengthen thelf understanding of themselves and of the people …

The lack of a precise operational definition of nongradedness has made it difficult to
determine to what degree nongradedness has actually been implemented in any given …

While the social environment of learning has attracted considerable attention in research
and in school life, physical conditions have been relatively neglected as ecological factors of …

METHOD Prior to the school year, 1972-1973, two third grade teachers were selected from a
public school in Lexington, Ky., for the study based on the following criteria:(a) their …

Open education is a popular topic in educational discussions and literature. A review of the
literature reveals that nearly all of those writing on the topic support open education. They …