Document Type
Graduate Project
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 1991
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Education
Committee Chair
Dale E. Otto
Second Committee Member
Parker C. Fawson
Third Committee Member
Calvin Greatsinger
Abstract
The focus of this study is the comparison of two different ways of grouping primary-level children and their teachers across grade levels. The two ways compared are the "class continuance" model, which is the maintenance of a structured same-age "family of learners" through the primary years, and the traditional practice of reassigning children and teachers to new classroom groups each year. Areas of comparison are the children's social, emotional, and cognitive growth. Nineteen children who remained with the same teacher during their kindergarten year and first grade were compared with 19 other children who were regrouped after finishing their kindergarten year and assigned to a new teacher for first grade. The results showed that the children identified as at-risk in the continuance model made significantly greater gains in the areas measured. Implications for utilizing the continuance model are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Howie, Georgann Marie, "An Exploration of the Results of Class Continuance from Kindergarten through the First Grade" (1991). All Graduate Projects. 345.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/graduate_projects/345