Multi-grade / age classes
Overview
- Influence: Multi-grade / age classes
- Domain: Classroom
- Sub-Domain: Class composition effects
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a negative impact
- Influence Definition: Classes in which students of multiple ages or grade levels share the same learning space, although students retain their respective grade-level assignments. While these classes are typically formed administratively by schools coping with declining enrollments or funding, some studies have shown that transitioning to a multi-grade or multi-age classroom does not adversely affect absences, tardiness, or academic achievement.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 67
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 45
- Weighted mean effect size: -0.01
- Robustness index: 1
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Review of Educational Research | Veenman | Netherlands | Cognitive and Noncognitive Effects of Multigrade and Multi-Age Classes: A Best-Evidence Synthesis | 1995 | Multiage classes | 11 | 0 | 11 | -0.03 |
| Review of Educational Research | Veenman | Netherlands | Effects of multigrade and multi-age classes reconsidered | 1996 | Multigrade classes | 56 | 0 | 34 | -0.01 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 67 | 0 | 45 | -0.02 | |||||